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Overhead drive and motor

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Can some of you share pics of your DIY overhead drive setups , I'm getting close to being ready to build one and would like ideas. Also I am considering using a 500w variable speed Rattmotor and wonder if any of you have experience with that and just how well it works with the overhead drive and / Or I would love feed back if there are reasons why thats a bad idea. My current drive the motor is mounted on the carbide cutter assembly and i am having a UCF built and would like to keep that 1/5hp motor on the current set up that way and have that as an option to still use .
 
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