[ Ref. 120614 MMDigest, Seek Pulley for Duo-Art Steamboat Pump

John Tuttle reports a client in Eugene, Oregon, who has a steamboat
pump with a hexagonal pulley that needs replacing.  I'd wager that
it is a six-spoke pulley made of a malleable casting alloy where the
spans between the spokes bowed in with age.  In any case, the pulley
really should be round.

I worked for years in electric motor repair shops and I have seen
variations of this problem on a number of machines.  In one case,
a pinion and crown gear set became mismatched because someone
carelessly reassembled the machine in a way that the motor was no
longer in the proper position.  The pot metal crown gear went hypoid
to make up for the mis-match!  As the machine was not in the shop
for anything but motor repair, we put it back together and let it
out the way it came in.

I live in Springfield, Oregon, which is just across the freeway from
Eugene, and I bet the local Grainger Industrial Supply store can
provide a replacement pulley.

Lee Rothrock
Springfield, Oregon