I sure you will get enough info from people on the forum but there is a first rate book abouts belts and belting by Stationary Engine Magazine..

Hi Kevin
Its called belt stick I dont know who made it
Nobby

phone up a museum which has belt driven machines and ask..I m trying to be a volunteer at Stretham Old Engine but I think they are all on holiday at the moment..Cambridge Museum of Technology might be easier

If you're anywhere near Gloucester I've a can of Rocol you can try out.

Roger

Hello Kevin,

You are looking for 'belt stick', it is a black resin based material that is applied to the inside of the running belt where friction melts it and impregnates the belt. You get a satisfying sticky tearing noise as the belt runs off the slack side of the pulley. It comes in a paper wrapped stick about a foot long.

Try agricultural engineers for it, it used to be available in Yorkshire up to 20 years ago. Old traction engine owners are likely to know of it as well, the ones that demonstrate belt driven machinery at fairs.

http://www.lathes.co.uk is another possibility, they sell flat belt jointing.

Belt dressing is lanolin based and is used to soften old belting, it won't help at all in this case.

Regards

Brian

Edited By Brian Wood on 24/12/2014 10:01:48

Go to a good music shop and ask for a block of ROSIN as used on violin bows. We used to use it on dad's old flat belt lathe. I believe that Rosin is the hardened gum from pine trees. Perhaps bury it in your garden for 10,000 years then dig it up and call it amber.

BobH

I recall during my apprentice days we used to use stuff we called 'black fat' or 'clagum', came in a 25 litre drum, looked like thick black treacle, but was much denser than treacle (the black fat not the apprentice . ) I guess it was more akin to the resin based material that Brian described, horrible stuff to get off your hands & had to use a stick to get it on, brushes wouldn't last two minutes.

George

I'v seen car timing belts used inside out, and shortened by cutting a long chamfer, and gluing and stitching. A jocky pulley could be used instead, if of small diameter, a toothed pulley to match the belt, but if it were reasonably large a plane one would be ok.

It is possible to get heat joined flat belt, it's best to give the belt supplier the size of the pulleys, and the distance apart of the shafts, they will make up the belt.  One place that will sort you out for this type of belt is

http://www.lathes.co.uk

Ian S C

Edited By Ian S C on 29/12/2014 09:53:19