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Originally Posted by bmammen
Great job! We've been struggling with something similar for a couple of weeks now. You wouldn't happen to have an STL file for the 3D printed housing? That's the most important piece to us at the moment as our tape seems to bunch up while extending.
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Not having the housing likely isn't your problem. The key to getting one of these lift to work is to pull the tape out with a second wheel, like the black stealth wheel they have. When extending, that wheel is trying to pull the tape out slightly faster or at the same speed as the spool is unspooling it.
57 has hit on a slightly different option, but it might be unique to our setup. We have a green banebots wheel that's pushing directly against the spool. This puts enough pressure on the tape that friction can transfer force from the bottom layer to the top layer and actually push out the top layer. We're still finalizing things, so I don't know exactly how reliable it will be, but that's what we've come up with.