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Re: Thoughts on the new AM14U 2014 KOP Drive train?

I was not enamored of it, until I realized that the other axle holes were, indeed, proper center-to-center distances for standard HTD Belts.

The default configurations seem very suboptimal - 23'' is too narrow for a lot of potential ball acquisition designs, and I'm not a fan of wide-orientation drive bases in general.

The only complaint I really have now is that in order to do something other than 23''x32'' or 32''x23'', you have to drill your own holes to attach the front/back plates, but that's minor as we can clamp and match-drill those.
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