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Re: polycord and yellow belt

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Originally Posted by Billfred View Post
Do you have a photo of this comb? (We used 5% stretch, though our belts are welded.)
Second the picture motion. Our polycord was coming off our pulleys/rollers as well, but decreasing the amount of ball compression helped a TON, and we still could increase the amount of stretch in the polycord.
Something we considered but haven't done was switching over to rapid prototyping instead of pulleys.

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