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Nick
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 11802
Location: Sydney, NSW
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Rather than hunt around spare parts shops and council clean-ups, ask youself what your time is worth (plenty), then go directly to the right shop and get exactly what you need with no fussing about.
For standardised industrial aluminium pulleys, the only onesI have seen in Sydney is the locally made Stenco brand. getting an industrial pulley means that there are many belt length options and many shops will have spares. The A size belts seem about right for the power levels generated in a featherweight. The B sized belts are a little thicker & stronger, but not worththe extra weight unless you are running a huge motor.
Having phoned or visited the following places in Sydney I can definitely recommend them all for belts and aluminium pulleys:
Blackwoods
: This place is the aussie equivalent to McMaster Carr in the US. They have 400,000 catalogue items. Go to the head office and warehouse in Smithfield. They take 1.5 hours to get orders picked from the warehouse so visit their web site, get the part numbers and phone in a cash sale first. Blackwoods was cheaper than BSC for the pulleys.
BSC Motion:
This company specialises in bearings and power transmission. They seem to have more varieties of pulley in stock than Blackwoods but were about %20 more expensive - on a $10 pulley that's hardly worth worring about if you can get it when you want it.
Consolidated Bearings:
Virtually the same as BSC, except they have some different imported brand names and different branch locations that might suit some people. If they don't have something on the shelf, it generally arrives overnight. Their only problem is their poor web site that does not mention many of their stocked items. _________________ Australian 2015 Featherweight champion
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