[burkey_turkey]

thanks. i thought that didnt look like a spur gear....

So saturday we were trying to get it off because we didnt want it on there (the belt thing). we successfully got off the spring roller atachement in seconds. the belt thing was a disaster. we took off the black clip on top as well as the other shiny protective thing. then we took off the set screw that was ataching the belt thing to the output shaft. we couldnt think of anything else to unatach in order to get off the belt thing. so we pulled and yanked for an hour or so on the belt thing trying to get it off. that didnt work at all. next we tried to grind it. we have a nice picture of this somewhere actually, because we ground off about a third of the belt thing. since we could see about half of the shaft now, we grabbed the belt thing with some vice grips clamped to a table, and started hitting the output shaft with hammer hoping to coerve it into moving the entire motor assembly down while the belth thing stays still, thus moving it off. somehow, we managed to hammer the output shaft out the back of the CIM ruining it.

so thats the sad story of our pimp CIM. we are ordering another one because we need that motor. hopefully we can order it without that stupid belt thing, but i dont know. if we cant get it without, can someone who has successfully removed the belt thing post instructions on how to effectively remove it without damagint the CIM? thanks.

pictures to come i promise!