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Re: 2x1x1/16 Belt-In-Tube

Very cool COTS solution!

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
The combination of 9mm wide belts and 24T pulleys, especially with 6" wheels, has been tried in FRC before by several teams with problems. Ratcheting and tensile belt failure are among the issues teams ran into.
I'd like to echo this. I've been on teams that ran belt for years with exactly zero failures until we moved to 9mm. I can't imagine doing 9mm again with the 24T pulley.

15mm is the way to go.
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