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Re: Belts 9mm or 15mm?

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Originally Posted by Chris_Elston View Post
DO NOT USE 9mm VexPro belts on the drive system. They break all the time
I have quite literally never seen one of these break (in fact, I've only ever seen a HTD belt from any source break once, in almost a decade of FRC). Are you sure you're using them within specs?

One thing to watch out for is that belts can break if they are crimped (this was the cause of the one failure I have seen, and is the cause of most of the ones I've heard about).
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