Wasn't sure where to put this, but to cut to the chase...
I have a Grizzly G9247 VS mini lathe, works great but unfortunately the lathe belt split apart down the middle around the entire belt.
Called the company, lathe is discontinued along with any replacement parts for it, searched online, went to numerous stores (vacuum, sewing machine places, etc.), all the stops. Thought I found a match in a store, but the teeth were not the same distance apart as the original belt and the width was half of it. Nothing is working out
So the belt has teeth (about 1/4" apart from each other and I counted 90 in total), made of some sort of plastic, stretches 8".
Anybody know another way to get this belt replaced?
The only suggestion that was given (which really would be a last resort) was to replace the sprockets with the teeth to sprockets that are flat and use flat rubber belts instead. I really do not want to tear apart this lathe because I think that it could be damaged that way.
Only other thing I can think of is that there may be a similar lathe out there with the same/similar belt but no dice from what I can see.
HELP
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