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Originally Posted by squirrel
It's a Southwest part...called a Swamp Cooler Blower Pulley. It's a 12" diameter, 1/2" V belt pulley, which happens to have nice flat spokes that are perfect for cutting off and bolting to a piece of plywood. The magic trick is using 3/8" belt on it, so there's an indent for the support bearings to ride in. (also we are going to put normal kit wheel bearings on it to replace the previous year KOP slide bearings)
We tried it and it worked.
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This is great COTS engineering for a turret! What kind of support bearings are you using?
How much weight do you think your turret can handle ?