Temp wooded pulley?

Can you post pics of the damaged pulley? Maybe someone will have an idea on how to repair what you have. I am a cheap old guy, I always look at repair before I even consider replacement. I did a repair on a v belt pulley that was the main drive between the PTO and blades for a small farm tractor with 62" mower deck, 20 years later it is still fine mowing 10 acres of lawn a week, with occasional forays into the swamp to knock down the long stuff.
 
Can you post pics of the damaged pulley? Maybe someone will have an idea on how to repair what you have. I am a cheap old guy, I always look at repair before I even consider replacement. I did a repair on a v belt pulley that was the main drive between the PTO and blades for a small farm tractor with 62" mower deck, 20 years later it is still fine mowing 10 acres of lawn a week, with occasional forays into the swamp to knock down the long stuff.
This should work on ZAMAK.

 
Being an Atlas machine, the pulley is probably ZAMAK. Which I wouldn't trust further than the nearest trash can. There may well be hairline cracks internally that only show up when in the middle of an important project. There is NO reliable fixing of ZAMAK, period. Long experience speaking here. I've dealt with the stuff since childhood.

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, no belay that. A long time ago, nearly 50 years, a friend and I were rebuilding a houseboat. He understood boat building, I understood structurial mechanics. Together we made a middlin' good boat builder. There was a type of plywood, surely marine grade, that had 9 plys for a 1/2 inch sheet. I don't know what it was called or where to get it, but it was available in 16 foot sheets at the time. The current sheet would be 12mm. And a short, 2 foot piece would be enough for both pulleys. Just use good glue, Elmer's won't cut it.

Making a "T" shaped flanged bushing with a wide flange to fasten to the plywood would serve the rest of your life. And maybe your children's as well. It would require careful construction, and good sealing. But would be easy to construct the "round" part with a stand and a belt sander. You could make it as a pattern and cast one from aluminium as well, if you were of that bent. But, from my perspective, the plywood would serve as well as a casting. Or use the casting with the wooden pattern as a fallback.

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Being an Atlas machine, the pulley is probably ZAMAK. Which I wouldn't trust further than the nearest trash can. There may well be hairline cracks internally that only show up when in the middle of an important project. There is NO reliable fixing of ZAMAK, period. Long experience speaking here. I've dealt with the stuff since childhood.

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, no belay that. A long time ago, nearly 50 years, a friend and I were rebuilding a houseboat. He understood boat building, I understood structurial mechanics. Together we made a middlin' good boat builder. There was a type of plywood, surely marine grade, that had 9 plys for a 1/2 inch sheet. I don't know what it was called or where to get it, but it was available in 16 foot sheets at the time. The current sheet would be 12mm. And a short, 2 foot piece would be enough for both pulleys. Just use good glue, Elmer's won't cut it.

Making a "T" shaped flanged bushing with a wide flange to fasten to the plywood would serve the rest of your life. And maybe your children's as well. It would require careful construction, and good sealing. But would be easy to construct the "round" part with a stand and a belt sander. You could make it as a pattern and cast one from aluminium as well, if you were of that bent. But, from my perspective, the plywood would serve as well as a casting. Or use the casting with the wooden pattern as a fallback.

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I made a double wide pulley for my lathe with some drops of Corian that I found at a Habitat thrift store. It’s a bit abrasive to cut , but the price was right.
I made a metal hub for it. It is about 10 inch dia and I paid about 6 bucks for it.
The drops come from where they cut out for the sinks.
Jimsehr
 
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