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Originally Posted by cgredalertcc
I'm not sure exactly what it is you are using, but if it is hollow they make barbed connectors that the tubing slides onto either end of. They are extremely strong: it took another mentor and I to pull it apart. If it is polycord they sell the welding kit, but that is $300, so it isn't terribly cost effective.
Best of luck
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Actually, you can just melt the ends with a butane lighter or a heat gun and stick them together in a piece of angle to bond them. You can trim off the excess urethane around the bond afterwards. We have 8 of these belts on our robot, each with 10 percent stretch or greater and I don't think we'll have them fail any time soon. A tip is to cut the belting at 45 degree angles to have a greater surface area on your bond.
-Vivek