Looking for some belt wisdom

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Devcon paint on 2 part urethane
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Bill Shields wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 4:54 pm Devcon paint on 2 part urethane
Between this stuff you mentioned and the nylon strap suggestion.............I may have a working combination.

Thanks everyone. I'll let you know how it works in a few weeks when I'm done.

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Kinda late to the party but what about rubber dental dam sheeting ?
You cut it to width providing you can get the length ( or width ) needed to make the belt circumfrence
and it's easily glued with contact cement .

It's been eons since I handled motion picture film, but I do remember Fuji motion picture film was a polyester
base, it was dreaded running thru film shuttles ( not shutters ) since it doesn't tear like the Kodak base does, if it jammed in
the camera shuttle a lot of damage would happen to the film shuttle movement.
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jcfx wrote: Tue Mar 22, 2022 8:05 pm Kinda late to the party but what about rubber dental dam sheeting ?
I think I’m going to try the nylon strap and paintable urethane first. It that doesn’t work I’ll look into the dental damn.

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Look for the woven nylon strapping used to tie up bundles of wood etc- used to replace the old steel strapping. Probably a lot cheaper if you ask for strapping rather than belting. I cut a bunch of 3/4" wide straps this morning to get to some 2x6s.
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Dimensions of desired belt?
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From the first post:
"The belt would be flat, less than 5/8" wide, roughly 24' long "

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Go to McMaster Carr and look up flat belts. They offer made to order, or you can buy by the foot.
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I hope you have spring loaded tensioner(s)....
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Bill Shields wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:13 am I hope you have spring loaded tensioner(s)....
Oh I've got to make those later too. After I modify a base from something else he dropped off to fit it to, mounting plate, find a motor, etc. It's going to be slow going for a while
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if you don't have at least one tensioner, you have not a chance of getting the belt length correct / everything to rotate as desired.

The weight of the motor can be the belt tensioner if you put it on some sort of hinge....
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Agreed. And I'll keep the motor on a hinge in mind.

I'm still a long way away from actually getting to the belt though. Before I start a project I try to build it in my head and go through all the steps one at a time looking for gotcha's along the way. I hate getting part way through a project and realizing a design choice isn't going to work and starting over. It's a waste of time and money. Plus, the things I work on for this guy are usually antiques and one off pieces that get modified or combined so if I screw up, there may not BE a way to start over.
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