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Re: Is Anyone Successfully Shooting with a Belt?

This struck me as an interesting question too. I would love to see it work, but I would advise against it.

Here's why: last year (and this isn't the first time I've told this story), we went with a two belted shooter. It was terrible. In addition to the angle being wrong, there was tons of slippage between the balls and the shooter, that caused lots of inconsistency. So, if you do decide to go with a belted shooted, make sure to do prototypes and dial in the compression before you put it on the robot.
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