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Originally Posted by thatprogrammer
Are the splicers for your timing belts just two pieces of metal bolted together? Thanks.
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Sort of. It has a milled belt profile to distribute the load properly. See below.
These carriage bearing blocks were quite intricate, but essentially became the entire structure of the carriage. The carriages themselves were quite weak and not very stiff. The belt and carriage blocks in the corners made the thing extremely rigid.

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