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Re: 233 telescoping arms how do they work?

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Originally Posted by George C View Post
We did something similar for a two-stage cascading mechanism driven by a Gates belt. We were able to saw and file a piece of aluminum to match the Gates tooth profile. The block covered about 6 teeth and we avoided putting holes through the belt. Worked perfectly on the second try.
971 did a similar attachment method with a machined block to match the belt tooth profile for their elevator in 2011.

For #25 chain, you can fit #4 screws through the gaps between the rollers to fix it to something, although I don't know if this is how 233 does it or not. Another method is to drill a hole in the fixed structure that one end of a masterlink fits through.
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