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Re: Center to Center with belts

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Originally Posted by DELurker View Post
Of course, if you don't want to have a separate tensioner and you want the shafts to be fixed in place, you can have one of the pulleys have either no flange or a removable flange. After all, you typically only need flanges on every other pulley.
We had fixed flanges on all of our pulleys this year and it worked fine. The trick is to put the belt on the pulleys before putting the pulleys on the shafts. Keep the pulleys in the same plane as you slide them onto the shafts and it will work fine.

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