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06-10-2013, 12:28

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Re: WCD CAD Practice

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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Any teams have experience using typical WCD cams with a belt drive? We're finalizing a similar off-season WCD, and we're concerned that the increments on a typical WCD cam are too large to properly tension a belt drive. Thoughts?

-Mike

You don't need a tensioning system at all to use a belt drive. If anything, designing to exact center distances with a belt drive is better as it eliminates any chance of the belt run pairs being tensioned unevenly.

There's no reason that the belt pulley walls would bend, regardless of how they're attached to the assembly.

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