OH SNAP! Belt failures 2014

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I've (thankfully) only seen one belt failure (a snapped HTD belt) during my time in FRC, which occurred on 449's 2008 robot towards the end of Battle O' Baltimore and was likely the product of our extremely shoddy belt tensioning system that year (everything on the drive was on 80/20 sliders, so between every match we'd loosen the bolts going to the gearbox and pull until the belts were tight, then re-tighten - ah, the things you do when you don't know any better...). The belts this year on all the teams I've worked with have held up perfectly.

On the flip side, I've given up trying to keep track of all the drive chain failures I've witnessed...