Quote Originally Posted by RestoRod View Post
Sorry for reviving a very old thread and I know that Pepi hasn't been active here for over a year but this is a subject of interest to me and hopefully others.
I am lying here in hospital recovering from an illness so I had some time to check out some old subscriptions and found this question which was never answered.

If Pepi is still around I for one would like to see his method. If not, perhaps another member has made this conversion and can add to this thread or show us how in his own thread.
This thread deserves to be bumped in any case.
I "Chat" with him on another forum and will ask him if you'd like.
I was going to do the conversion on a older Craftsman saw by adding a "jackshaft" with additional pulleys to slow the blade speed down. On the craftsman there was actually a separate "kit" to do this. There are also many videos on U-tube to do this also.

Some measures are needed so you get the feet per minute (fpm) into the right ranges for different materials, usually steel being the slowest.