Need help with finding a v-belt pulley.
 

Totally confusing. McMaster Carr has hundreds. I don't need this to be difficult.

What I need is a fairly large diameter pulley with a 1/2" bore to reduce the speed of a bandsaw. I've checked eBay and I guess I don't know the nomenclature. And all of the belt profiles are really just too much.

What belts are typically used on power tools like a table saw? AX or something like that? I don't know what an AX is.

Someone please help me find a stupid pulley for not a stupid cost. Anything over 8" diameter will be OK. I can get the ratios I need from there by selecting my drive pulley diameter.

TIA!

PS, will buy used if you have such an animal.

Off the subject, but I thought there was a 15 minute delay before posts were recorded. This thread has gone almost an hour and no one has even looked?

How wide of a belt are you using?

Try this part number at McMaster Carr : 6245K55

McMaster-Carr

Just a quick search, I hope it helps!

No idea on the pulley, but can you use an electronic speed control? Something like a rheostat from HD to control the speed infintely?

This one might work, McMaster-Carr

If the link doesnt work, Part Number: 6245K941

Wouldn't you need two pulleys?

Electric motors make equal torque from 1RPM to max RPM so you could just slow the motor down electronically without loss of torque.

Yep, those will work. AFA electronic control, I think that will cost more than a pulley. Also, I read sometime ago that induction motors don't like that kind of control. I'm pretty sure my motor is an induction type. I don't see a capacitor start either.