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Re: Center to Center with belts

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
Look at the Gates spec, though know that their numbers are *very* conservative. In my team's experience, if you are using a smaller pulley (such as to fit in a small space height wise) you'll want 15mm GT2 and if you're using a larger pulley then 9mm is just fine. Since you're doing sheet metal, you probably have enough room to use 2.5"+ diameter pulleys and can step down to 9mm.
The design I'm working on would be using the 42 tooth HTD pulleys from AndyMark for convenience sake so I wanted to see if I could get away with the 9mm belts so that I could fit two belts on a single pulley, which would save a significant amount of space.
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Last edited by MetalJacket : 29-11-2013 at 16:37. Reason: clarification