Thread: Sherline Drill press

Put up a pic of the belt and the pulley profile, and approx dimensions, and we may be able to help.
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Thank you for your response and my apology for not getting back on the sire quickly to give you a reply. I was lucky enough to speak to my neighbour who works at some sort of distribution centre and she took the broken belt to work. A customer took it to his factory and made one in about ten minutes for no cost. Now I have one and just have to do a test drill to make sure it works. I am not sure how come but a friend of mine has the same model and the pulleys in his are black and vee'd so he can use a normal belt. He doesn't know much about it other than it was his late fathers so I don't know if it had the pulleys replaced or they came fitted. The pulleys actually look a lot newer so maybe I can change the pulleys on mine as well. Thanks again for your offer to help.

Sher was an Aussie company till they sold out to the US in the mid to late 70's. They did some odd ball things in the name of product improvement before the sale and there seems to be quite a bit in the US units as well.
Glad that you managed to solve your problem for the time being, but it would be handy for you to know what belt form is used in case you need another later on, at pressent you are a couple of steps removed from the info, and might get similar access in five years time.

I have just been given a Sherline Bench Drill model DM-13 It has obviously been sitting for a long time unused as the drive belt stapped as soon as i started it. It is a 5 Speed model and the belt is round (not a V belt) same problem as SCAHWP.
Has anyone had the same problem and found a solution?