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Re: Timing Belts for 6W Drive

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Originally Posted by Mechkrunch View Post
We used belts on one of our robots a couple of year ago. We found that if you dont tension the belts then they will skip. It doesnt seem to hurt performance, but it can scare people with how loud the skipping is.
If your belts are slipping, it has to hurt your performance-it means you're losing tons of efficiency.

I believe 125 used belts either last season or in 2007, and they did not like them at all. If I remember correctly they ended up swapping them for chains. Do a search and you can find the thread about them.
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