Just a UK woodworker learning as I go, and understanding the benefits of woodworking for mental and physical health.
As someone dealing with chronic Fibromyalgia and Ankylosing Spondylitis, woodwork is far more to me than just making a chopping board, and I hope to share my enthusiasm, projects, and benefits of working with your hands when I can.
I also want to normalise that we don't all have to know everything!
A chain vice grip over a rag or scrap of leather or rubber will hold the pulley without damage. Use an impact wrench. The video is reversed based on the lettering on your shirt showing backwards, so the thread is likely not reverse thread.
Refit the belt and use an impact gun or put the belt round the pulley use the foot type vice grips so it grips the belt tight then either an impact gun or get some one to help and use a power bar and socket
A lot of machines like that with a rotary cutterhead have reverse threaded parts. I know thats the case with most shapers I have used, there was some sort of lock lever to allow you to loosen the nut without the thing spinning. Is the issue you are having that you cant get the nut off without the part under it spinning? If thats the case, i think its very possible the machine has some way of locking that you might be missing. Maybe check the manual if you havent already. Let me know if that helps.
I would suggest a large adjustable pipe wrench with rags packed in to protect the pulley wheel then an impact driver to undo the nut. As others have said, make sure not left hand thread. PS....where did you get the helical head for it cos I've got a TP125 and am looking to get one. Thanks
I used to remove centrifugal clutches off stihl saws using an impact driver. The shock is usually enough to get it off. Looking at the video it looks a right hand thread but just make sure. When I said impact driver I meant a 1/2 inch o r3/8th inch mechanics impact driver not the screw driving type.
I came to this because the inner belt on mine broke yesterday, pretty easy to get hold of, just one point if any one else get here, you don't have to split the chain, you see behind the left small top roller gear is a fork held in place by a square block, it seems that is the chain tensioner, if you slide that over to the left, which happens after Dean removed the chain around 16:36, you can actually lift the large plastic gear, its under some spring pressure but it does relieve the chain tension to pull off both small gears and the chain from the small gear on the large plastic gear, same for reassembly.
