Bandsaw 10 - Motor pulley problems

Over the last couple of days been trying to recover from a major setback!

While trying to turn the crowns on the fattened wheels the V-drive pulley, which is bolted to the impeller, keeps separating itself (spinning off) from the threaded motor shaft under the heavier loads. I was wondering if this would come back to bite because the motor originally ran CCW and the impeller screwed CW (opposite direction) onto the motor shaft. The blade needs to run CW so I reversed the motor direction with the added benefit that the motor could be mounted towards the back of the saw.Well...I'll have to wire the bloody thing back to CCW and have the motor sticking out the front (merry go round) which means pulling the motor apart again! However while doing that and removing the rear cooling fan from the 12mm shaft at the back I realised that I should be mounting the pulley here, not at the front on a skinny 8mm threaded shaft - duh to myself.



Going backwards...with the whole motor assembly pulled apart.

This is the back of the motor with the fan removed from the rear 12mm shaft. Why the hell was I frigging around at the front trying to fit a pulley on a threaded 8mm shaft?

This is the front of the motor, the wooden pulley bolted onto the original impeller which then screwed onto the shaft. I wasted a lot of time here, all I had to do I the first place was replace the fan at the back with a pulley!

I'll have to modify the motor box and...

relocate the brass hinges.

This picture shows the 12mm shaft at the back which has two flats on it, I can use them to secure the pulley on the shaft with a grub screws.