[rspurlin]

We used the green belting from McMaster and did the welds with a heat gun. The ones that failed failed long before we put them on the bot. However, knowing what I know now, I'd get the hollow tubing and barbs. It can be installed to replace a broken belt without disassembling your robot. Our runs this year were pretty long and because we wanted to make sure the bands did not flex much, we shortened the band by the recommended 8%. Our bands ended up too tight and placed way too much load on the motor. We probably destroyed a CIM that way.