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Tunneled Timing Belt

PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 1:54 am
by canadaduane
I'm curious if anyone has previously used the interior of the makerslide as a place to put one side of the timing belt loop:

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I'd been racking my brains trying to figure out how to modify bart's DSLR camera slider design to side-mount the motor and came up with this. I haven't seen it before, but I'm sure I'm not the first to design it (I'm never first, the internet has taught me so... :)

Duane Johnson
http://makerslider.com/

Re: Tunneled Timing Belt

PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 1:29 pm
by bdring
I like that design.

I have played with that idea before, but I always tried to do it with conventionally fabricated parts like sheet metal, laser cut or CNC routed parts and did not like what I came up with. I could probably machine your method if I used thick material.