I could never get the belt tension right… I would either have them to tight and break belts or miss steps for being to loose… I ended up converting to chains…
Agreed. I have WAY more time than Phil on mind and never broke a belt. And mine are TIGHT. It is an alignment issue with 93% certainty. ( 7% is reserved for other user faults like cleaning them with oven cleaner or burning the wood chips off with a torch… I’ve seen it all on this forum). The other 1% is reserved for the fact that I do have plenty of extra belt material on hand from Ebay but have not needed it. If I DIDN’T have it, perhaps they would have broken by now. But that is just redneck mysticism.
I got an email from Jeffery on Inventables.
He going to send me a new one
I think it snapped of because it was a earlier problems with a pulley
I have replaced that pulley so cross your fingers
that it going to last longer than Phil´s
One of the things that caused my belts to break was the obstruction in the way when the carriage was moving and it stopped and I heard a loud grinding noise. This noise was telling me that my toothed pulley was eating the belt.
Hmm. So your total certainty is 101%?
“with 93% certainty. ( 7% is reserved for other user faults like cleaning them with oven cleaner or burning the wood chips off with a torch… I’ve seen it all on this forum). The other 1%…” chuckle