Hi Woody

General opinion for bearing is to replace with angular contact ball bearings. These are the same dimensions as the original bearings.

The toothed belt on low speed will give positive drive. Vee Belts do not perform well at low speeds and high loads and tend to slip.

An option is to use poly vee belts "J" section 4 ribs or overkill with 6 ribs is adequate for 300 watt motor.

Simple enough to fabricate pulleys from Aluminium or Cast Iron Keep the diameters the same as the original or propotionally bigger that will still fit under the guards.

Poly Vee belts perform quite well at low speed compared to vee belts.

Eric

Hi Woody

The toothed belt runs smoothly when tensioned correctly and should cause no problems.

The gibs on the top slide and crossslide may require some attention to get better performance to the finish.

One mod I have done is to replace the adjuster screws with cup point socket head grub screws and a 4mm ball bearing to look like this " <o> " Lock up the gibs tight then remove one and with a 4mm drill in an eggbeater hand drill tidy up the dimple in the gib strip. Put ball in and tighten up the grub screw then repeat with the next adjuster screw.

Eric