Conveyer Build

[tracksntreadslou]

Hey jim you may have to make ajustable slotted brackets to hold your end rollers .My belt is pretty tight and slips on occasion ..still trying to work the bugs out ..My drive rollers are rubber so i may insert small sharp pins around the diameter and trim them off with 1/16 sticking out with the dremel ..thinking that should help with slipping ..take your time with little adjustments at a time..I also glued rubber horseshoe strips to keep the material from falling off the belt as you can see ..a few closeup
Too Bad that treadmills are so long .would have to make a seam .thin belts and very durable ..saw two at our recycle center

[Rvjimd]

Thanks for the tips guys! I'm headed out to the shop now to check on that stuff and try a few of the suggestions.

Jim

[Rvjimd]

I made two new end drums and crowned them on my sophisticated lathe. oh, wait, I just chucked them in the drill and used a wood chisel. worked good enough I guess cause the belt tracks really good now! Thanks a BUNCH for that tip! I even took the belt off my bench top belt sander to see how much crown it had. Not enough for me to notice it until today, but when I put a straight edge on it, looked like about 1/32 at each end of the four inch wide rollers.

Here is the third test video. I hope I can get this sucker working sometime Sunday. I still need to widen the frame a bit to fit the new belt. And, I think I want to slow it down a bit more. Not sure how I'm gona do that, cause I don't want to put a bigger spur gear on it and I don't think I have a bigger crown gear.

http://youtu.be/W2iv_fd8XIc

Jim

[Rvjimd]

Today. Saw good progress with the conveyor belt!

I had always told myself maybe the rubber I was using was too heavy and stiff for the narrow scale. So, I cut up a light weight 26" bike tube, glued the butt ends together with CA, added a small splice piece and it seems to hold pretty good. I don't have a lot of tension on it. One pic you can see the splice. Also, the tube is cut to favor the natural curve or the tube so it follows a nice concave on the machine. I don't think I'm gona need rollers now.



Added a in feed bin, made from tin flashing.


Splice joint in the belt.


http://youtu.be/pE0RhldRzh0

Jim

[Rvjimd]

Here is a video clip loading from the stock pile into the conveyor/stacker to the barge loading pile.

http://youtu.be/kapvscN0GuA

Jim

[Rvjimd]

Here is a video loading a barge using the new conveyor. Got some paint on it and moved the legs down to setup for barge loading

http://youtu.be/nMDasxKSxOw

Jim