"Bushy" wrote in message ...
How about the treadle and so on from an old sewing machine?

Way too light. and too small, the lower pulley, as close as I can
tell is about 24 inches dieameter, almost 4 inches thick with three
steps for the different belt speeds. Uses a 1"wide by 1/8" thick flat
leather belt. There were more that were pedal powered than treadle,
but mine is set for both, don't know which it originally had. I've
seen and run a lot of Barnes drills, but this is the only Barnes lathe
I've ever seen, in 44 years of machining. Nice little machine, the
old machines had a charm and grace in the curves that modern
manufacture doesn't.