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Re: Lightweight belt sprocket
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Originally Posted by ksafin View Post
Hello all,

We ended up using Tetrix plastic tank tread for our conveyor this year due to some issues with polycord and gates belts, but we want to use gates belts next year.

However, I've found that the Gates sprockets are very heavy (we have, i believe, 4"ish diameter sprockets.

Anyone know of lighter belt sprockets?
Just curious; what issues did you run into with polycord? We managed it fine this season. (Minus the fact our speed was tortoise slow due to being run of the FP gearboxes in the KoP)
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