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Re: pic: Team 2039 almost done

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Originally Posted by armyOFdarkness View Post
We haven't had any problems with ball handling. We squeeze the ball down to 7" diameter. The rollers are made of 2" ID pvc pipe (painted) with small grooves to hold the belts in. The pneumatic tubing spikes help hold the belts in place. We also have 7% length stretch on the belting. On the rear conveyor system we are also using pieces of the timing belt that came in the kit rivoted to the tube to help prevent the belts from sliding around. Hope this helps!
7% we only did 3% and they were bending our PVC like mad... We ended up switching to something different...