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Re: Round Belting - Solid vs. Hollow, Polycord vs. McMaster

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Re: Round Belting - Solid vs. Hollow, Polycord vs. McMaster

I believe I have found a vendor that is cheaper than Mcmaster and trust worthy. I'll post after checking thier stocks tommorrow.
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Re: Round Belting - Solid vs. Hollow, Polycord vs. McMaster

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We've milled ours out of delrin rod (lucky enough to have a sponsor who gives us just about all we want). For those less fortunate, you could use schedule 40 plastic pipe with grooves cut, that's a common method. You could also use 1/2" shaft with plywood pulleys. It's simple enough to turn on a lathe or milling machine. There's lots of options.
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Re: Round Belting - Solid vs. Hollow, Polycord vs. McMaster

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NO, Polycord or the less expensive versions are very different than surgical tubing. Round belt urethane belts are MUCH less elastic than surgucal tubing. The are also, however, less "sticky", but far more than enough to move the 2009 game balls. Surgical tubing stretches too much and is a bit more difficult to attach to itself (Although a volunteer at Hartford Ct regional [can't remeber his name] told me the perfect way. Roll the surgical tubing back on itself and put 1/2 of a one inch section of pneumatic air hose from the KoP up to the edge. Coat the edge of the tube with Crazy Glue then roll the tubing onto the hose. Repeat the process with the other end of the surgical tube and the other half of the hose and you'll have a closed loop which will NEVER break at that point.)
We prototyped the round urethane belt conveyance for this year and it moved it beautifully. The key is deciding if you are going to have one set of belts roll against a stationary wall or have two belts rolling the ball between them. Both worked for us, obviously one is twice as fast as the other.

One mistake many people may have when first trying to adhere two ends together is to heat with a simple flame and hold them together. Using a short (6" or so) length of aluminum angle to maintain allignment, heat to a liquid melt then touch together and pull apart about 1/16 to 1/8" . This is crucial. Failure to do so may give a false sense of adhesion. The separation prevents the hot urethane from being squeezed out by the non-melted belting.

Don't be intimidated by the product. We've used it in '06 and could gather the small balls going 12fps, as fast as we could drive over them.


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Re: Round Belting - Solid vs. Hollow, Polycord vs. McMaster

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Re: Round Belting - Solid vs. Hollow, Polycord vs. McMaster

I have to coment on the post by Tom I. He is a friend of mine and he and i have had a change of heart with the bonding of the belting... though i would still not recomend it for a belt it works great bonded to a flat piece of the same material. we used this to make the fingers for our collector this year...

just my two cents...
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