Pardon me for bringing up this old thread but there are a couple of new issues that are not discussed heretofore.
This is a 1958 WIAD.
First of all, my spindle pulley was also stuck or so I thought for it would move about 3/16" and no further. The feed (sleeve) pulley was extended into a counter bore of the main pulley and therefore out of sight. As it turned out there was a hardened steel collar in that counterbore between the two pulleys. This spacer collar is about 5/16" long and has no keyway in it. In order to pull both pulleys off together you would have to broach a keyway through the collar with the woodruff keys that are still under the feed pulley and thats not going to happen. However, I tryed and as a consequence I too broke a small chunk out of the main pulley.
This brings up my next issue. What kind of aluminum is that thing made of and is it weldable.
I know that the one on the spindle is hard, brittle and breaks without bending. Whereas the one on the gearbox will bend. I guess what I am asking is did you weld your's and if so was it satisfactory? I am considering cutting the dual Vs off both of them and making them for a polyvee belt.
This is a hellava time to ask but is there any secrets to the assembly of the feed/threading gear box? I got a wheelbarrow full of bearings coming. Most, but not all, of the blind plugs have two setscrews in them which will be almost impossible to get back in there. Maybe putting them in a cooler full of dry ice might work. I'm wondering, as tight as those things are, if they (setscrews) are really necessary?
All of the gears look great. There are two different DP's in there. Two are 20DP and the rest are 16DP. I suspect that this was done because the large one would have been too big to fit in there if they were also 16DP.
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
Jim W.