I just purchased the Eastwood seig milling machine. Your channel gave me the courage to believe in myself that if it's junk I can make it precise, I'm sure it's not a bad machine but I'm sure it will need upgrades. I almost bought one like yours but after I spent the time n $ I'd be in it for what they Eastwood is.
Kind of crazy idea...could you have simply (;-)) added another spindle motor on the side of the housing, and run a longer, and wider, belt to the spindle head? It's not super hard to run two motors together with servoing, so that one motor can kind of 'idle' when more torque is not needed, but use the error signal from the 'primary' motor to drive the second motor... probably more expensive than your nice, simple, gear solution, but does allow for 'full speed' with high torque. Cheers 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪
Hi, what about making a plan using hardware's data ? With the number of teeth of the pulleys and the belt, you know the exact axial distance of the pulleys. There's abacus or online calculators if you like. You want 6 teeth or more in mesh for a good transmission. With gears and the axial distance is even more crucial to limit the backlash. It's easier to tension the belt with a bearing pushing the belt towards the pulleys.
There is always a lot of possibilities to make something better. The gears mesh is possible to setup with moving of the engine. The solution for a belt you will see in one of my next videos. One I could say for sure now. It works )))
