Yes, but the beauty of proper strap wrenches is that they are made for thin tubing. The Reed, for example, has two user modes:
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The Titan that I broke could only be used in the "heavy-walled tubing" mode from above, and it shattered before doing any damage to the cone.
South Bend says to simply pull the belt after blocking the chuck against the ways with a piece of wood. The pictures are all for lathes driven from an overhead line shaft, so not much help with under-mount motors. Later editions of "How To Run A Lathe" suggested just grabbing the large belt pulley with the back gears enabled, again with the chuck blocked against the ways with a piece of wood. Uh, yeah. The strap wrench is just a better way to grab the pulley. Interesting that they use the back gears for that, but then I'm assuming that their world admit the possibility of a stuck chuck.
Rick "welcome to 1946" Denney
