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Re: polyurethane tubing

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Originally Posted by HighLife View Post
We've had a few teams come to us and say that they've tried the lighter method and had belts break on them.

Pay a few bucks for the barbs and you'll save yourself time in the build process and stress later.
We used a simple fusing technique and have never had any belts break on us despite attempting very hard to do so. We created a simple mold by drilling a hole through a delrin block then cutting it into two halfves down the center of the hole. We then heated the two ends of the cord with either a lighter or soldering iron, placed it in the mold and applied presurre for about a minute.
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