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Re: Designing a "belt + roller" conveyor for balls

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Originally Posted by Abhishek R View Post
We fused them up with a heat gun, and then used two pieces of plastic clamping them together for a few minutes.

Also, I wasn't thinking straight. I meant to say urethane tubing.
Ah, that makes more sense.

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
Depending on the ID of your surgical tubing, you can actually get pretty good results by using a short length of pneumatic tubing as a press-in insert to the ends of the surgical tubing. Works pretty well for these sorts of applications, though there are other ways to do it.

Though I'm definitely sold on flat belting after playing around with it the last few seasons. Just a bit of electrical tape around your roller to make a crown and the belts will self-center.
Just want to point out that while the belts do self-track to the center of the crown, it's definitely not going to stay there under any sort of side load. Be prepared to be realigning belts between matches.
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