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Not enough surface contact I would make sure the belt is the correct thickness to make as much contact as possible with the walls of the pulley.
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As long as you have the right belt cross section for the pulleys I would give it a go. Technically it may not be correct but if they are B section belts (and there') two of them I think you will get away with it. Don't try to compensate for slip by over tightening the belts. That will wreck the mincer or the motor main bearings.
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The primary reduction pulleys are A section
and the secondary are B . Not planned that way , neighbour gave me the big primary pulley which has a 1" bore, and the mincer came with a B section ....so I was sorta guided by all that .
The new pillow block self aligning bearings were 80 bucks all up and new bearings for the old (not self aligning ) bearing housings were going to be 70 bucks so that didnt take much thinking about .🙂
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I have a similar setup.

Having a bit of slip available is quite a good thing because it means if the mincer jams on a big hunk of bone like an Albacore backbone it will just slip the belt rather than damaging anything. My second version is going to have an idler mounted on a lever so I can bump it to temporarily give it more grip on the small pulley if it's struggling with something, while still having a sorta fail-safe.
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Yeah coz we catch Albacore all the time here in Riverton aye 🙄, 😆😆. But I do understand your thinking ...if I could have laid my hands on a centrifugal clutch with double pulley I would have grabbed it but ........
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"centrifugal clutch with double pulley" My ride-on has one of those but I kinda need it LOLMaybe put the word out to the local mower shop. 
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Like Smudge says - you have double pulleys - so in theory half the optimum contact should work.
And there is always 'Belt grip' . Check that out.
You may not have albies - but I am sure someone will post you few to try. Tongue
This is turning out epic.
Just an idler wheel on a lever may suffice - if needed. What I learnt over the yrs with this sort of project - don't over- think it before it gets out the box. Run the bare bones and work it from there. Half the stuff you may be trying to compensate for may not happen. Refine it as needed. The Mk 3 will be perfect. What else have you got to do in a Sthland winter??
A video on startup would be good.  Matt Watson stuff.
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Yep ,I sussing how to post a vid . I have a small freezer full of fishy leftovers ...been collecting it for a couple of years now .
Looked at ride on mowers clutches but they were all bigger than my 20mm crankshaft , and all to big in diameter .
This motor has peak torque of 9.1nm at 2500rpm so Im thinking if I multiply that by 23.6 ( total reduction ) is 214nm ....which is about how hard youd have to twist my arm to get me to drink a Doh bro (🤮)..... Or Waikato (🤮🤮)
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That's going to take a bit of stopping. This is going to be epic. I too enjoying the progress. 
What are you plans with pushing feeder material into the top. Hand winding a bit of dowel does the job and I've made it of a size that won't easily fit into the worm. I'm thinking you may need something similar. 
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Had a day off from it today ,had 6m³ firewood that needed to be put in the shed .
Im kinda hoping that this thing will accept stuff just being dropped into it , that was the point I had in mind when I went for the biggest one I could find....but if it transpires that I do need to encourage stuff into it I have a large dia table leg ....thinkin that its big enough dia to sit on top of the auger and not get dragged into the guts of the mincer....either that or something it can chew up if it does get dragged in ...like my hand 😆😆, nah, some dude on a fishing boat down here lost a leg stomping stuff into a mincer on the boat a while ago ,and I remember thinkin 🤬k that, there'd be nothing quick about it . Back into it tomorrow 🙂
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