I am slowly setting up my lathe, as soon as i can get the vfd it will be working. but i noticed that i will need to get some puleys. the lathe has 4 step pulleys, the motor that i got it with only had 1 pulley and that one is equal to the smallest pulley on the spindle. what size pulleys should be gotten for the motor end? i was thinking that i should get one that is the same as the smallest one and one that is the same size as the biggest one, then i would have the top and lowest speeds, and since rought heavy work wouldnt be done on the inbetween i could just set it to the top speed pulley and then use the vfd.
any thoughts?