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Nick Bouressa Nick Bouressa is offline
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Re: Untested Conveyor Claw Design

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Originally Posted by WizenedEE View Post
The problem with that is that the length of the loop changes, but there might be some way around that.
166 has an elevator style cable driven lift and we ran into the same problem. We ended up attaching rubber-bands on the downward cables to act as tensioner. They are cheap, simple, and light weight. They work very well and we have not had any issues with them (yet). And if the rubber-bands do break you NEED a back up so it doesn't fail catastrophically.
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