Belting Pulley Hubs & Discussion

[ayeckley]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

Has anyone else done this? I haven't gotten an email saying they received my request. Does anyone have experience with this? Should I have received notification that they received it or it was shipped?

In our case there was no direct acknowledgement that the emailed request was received until roughly a week later, and it came in the form of a shipping notice. The parts showed up last week (a total of about 2-3 weeks after the initial request) via FedEx Ground. Sorry I don't have the exact dates accessible at the moment. The sender's information on the shipping label offered no clue that it was from Gates; it wasn't until I opened it that I realized what it was.

Edit: Are you sure that you sent the request with the exact subject line that they instructed us to use? I'm assuming that determines how things get routed within the Gates offices.

[roystur44]

Team 971 made good use of GT2 timing belt the past year.

A 20 tooth GT2 5mm pitch (15 mm wide belt) is rated to 93 in-lbs

We used GT2 belt on our 2 stage elevator. I must say that our elevator is one of the best I've seen. We were fast, accurate, light weigtht and easy to manufacture and maintain.

We accidently caught our roller claw on the peg and the elevator picked up our 120 lbs robot no problem. The belting did not skip.

We use belting on our roller claw and that worked out pretty good.

We hex broached the pulleys and used nylon spacers to align the pulleys.

You can take a look at the use of the timing belt here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/1177698...anismCloseups#

http://www.youtube.com/user/roystur4.../9/3jm_yPl83gs

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by ayeckley

In our case there was no direct acknowledgement that the emailed request was received until roughly a week later, and it came in the form of a shipping notice. The parts showed up last week (a total of about 2-3 weeks after the initial request) via FedEx Ground. Sorry I don't have the exact dates accessible at the moment. The sender's information on the shipping label offered no clue that it was from Gates; it wasn't until I opened it that I realized what it was.

Edit: Are you sure that you sent the request with the exact subject line that they instructed us to use? I'm assuming that determines how things get routed within the Gates offices.

Thanks for the info. I did use the subject line as directed. I guess i'll just be patient. Thanks again!