Conveyor Belt

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Otaku

I'm sure there's a number of ways you could do it, but the easiest to do (probably) would be just "standard" treadmill/conveyer belt material... I don't know what it's called but it's almost always the same kinda stuff -- this black cloth/hard rubber material covered in tiny divots for traction.

Actual conveyor belting is a bad idea. It's a flat belt, so it's much more difficult to get it to ride true than a round belt or V-belt or something. You'll need crowned pulleys to have reasonable odds of keeping it on, but that's dependent on how well aligned the pulleys are. If they're too far our of parallel with each other, the belt is inevitably going to walk to one side or another. They're just generally harder to get working than the round urethane belting. Which is why you see so many teams running the urethane belts.