Thread: 9 mm Wide Belts
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Re: 9 mm Wide Belts

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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence View Post
That's very interesting. I've never heard of problems on correctly tensioned belts in a drive. Were you using GT2? HTD is better rated for rapid direction change, though it really shouldn't matter.
GT2. I know of plenty of teams experiencing ratcheting with 9mm wide belt. Once you go up to 15mm ratcheting only happens in extreme cases, but then you're much wider than running #25 chain
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