From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Leon Fisk"  wrote in message news:vto91k$1v80t$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   This is what the bottom tranny area looks like on my old Snapper   
   Snowblower. The silver colored disk is belt coupled to the 5hp engines   
   power-takeoff shaft. It spins all the time the engine is running. The   
   rubber disk contacts it when a hand grip is squeezed. The lever in   
   front slides it left to right changing speed and reverse by contacting   
   the other side of the disk. Everything you want is already here. This   
   is a common drive mechanism in the snowblowers here and some   
   lawnmowers...   
      
   https://postimg.cc/gallery/yzX0ybk   
      
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   Leon Fisk   
   Grand Rapids  MI   
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   A replacement rubber-shod friction drive wheel for my 1990's Toro snowblower   
   cost me only $20. The control mechanism could be made from drilled bar   
   stock. It could also work for parallel shafts and a conical driver, if you   
   can find or make one.   
      
   Go karts use a comparable variable speed mechanism with starting clutch.   
   https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Torque-Converter-Replacement-218   
   53A/dp/B07D9BNY91/ref=asc_df_B07D9BNY91?   
      
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