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Re: pic: How we deal with a part shortage.
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Originally Posted by lemiant View Post
Thanks for the kind words. While these were made to be a replacement for the gates belt the model is not actually there. I got the tooth pattern from the SDP-SI CADs and made the rest. That might just mean we're messing with someone else's copyright but I'll look into it.
You could also probably CNC it out of a block of alum. The 5 mm profiles for GT2/HTD is big enough to let you get a 3/32nd endmill in between the teeth. We machined all of our own pulleys and so far they have been working great in drive.
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