Love of lathes.

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I had a similar problem years ago on my old Dominion combination woodworking machine, all the drives except for one were driven by vee belts, the other drive used a flat belt, it drove the 2 speed reduction gearbox that drove the feed rollers on the 16 x 9 planer thicknesser, it was made of canvas and was fraying badly were it was joined with the alligator clips, I took the belt to the local belt man and he recommended a new composite belt, I left the old one with him and a couple of days later he phoned up to say the new one was ready, not sure what it was made of but the core was some kind of modern stuff sandwiched between some kind of close weave fabric stuff, the joint was done using a finger joint rather than a scarf joint, I don't know if the finger joint was glued or welded but it was very strong and hardly any stretch all the years I used it, it had a real hammering too, I once stuffed a 24 ft length of 12" x 6" sawn Douglas Fir through the planer, I had to cut a hole in the end of the workshop for it to pass through on it's out feed.

Lawrence.