Do link belts work well on Reeves drive drill presses?

The speed raises because the belt is longer so more belt goes past with one turn of the drive pulley? I didn’t realize that the stretch would affect drill speed! If I wasn’t already at home I could go home now because I’ve, yet again, learned something from the good folks of Lumberjocks. Thank you Loren.

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

I think what happens is you can’t have the belt under adequate
tension at the slowest setting when it starts to stretch so to
get power transfer the tool needs to be run at progressively
faster speeds as the belt belt stretches.

I don’t want to lose the low speed on my new drill press
so I wanted to figure this out sooner rather than later.

I’ll have to price out link belts as my low speed slips, just as you describe. I just thought that was how the machine was designed.

-- "Checking for square? what madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2