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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss
Hm, it would be nice to know whether an 18t HTD pulley will work with 15mm wide belts. I'm currently working on a WCD that would be using that setup, so I have a bit of a vested interest. For your purposes, since you're already machining your pulleys out of stock, couldn't you switch to GT3 belts and GT2 pulleys? there's not a huge difference, but it would give you some margin of safety for the the setups that are on the cusp of failure.
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yeah we have broken HTD 15mm with 18 tooth. This year we made the pulleys almost the same diameter as our wheels to have a beefy safety factor with HTD.
Most likely, if we stick with belts, is to go with GT3/GT2 like 971.