28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
11:16 a.m.
Is the ladder belt a belt or a chain ?
I have seen metal chains in the "ladder" format, each "rung" looped to
the
next, could be extended or shortened very easily, used to be used on model
cars a lot for the four wheel drive.
HPC Gears have plastic ladder chain
http://www.hpcgears.com/newpdf/ladder_chain.pdf
and plastic chain http://www.hpcgears.com/newpdf/ladder_chain.pdf
is that the sort of thing ?
Mike
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Message: 20
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:08:45 +0000
From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
Subject: Ladder-shaped belt
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On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 22:13 +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
The drive belt fro an HP9871 (daiswheel printer,
the belt is about 2m
long and looks like a ladder. I am told none have survived. This is one
printer I would love to find, just to see if I can work out some
alternative)
I'm guessing that the rungs of the ladder go between teeth on the
pulleys, and the rails of the ladder keep the belt in place? In which
case, I'd get the closest matching toothed belt I could find and fit
little metal end cheeks on the pulleys to stop it sliding sideways. If
you were tight for space, you could probably get away with only one
pulley.
Gordon