Flat belts are available for all sorts of items – old cassette platers, microwaves, etc. Toothed belts like-wise – nothing stopping one from removing the teeth.

If you want to make your own, are these to be welded, glued or jointed (like the originals)?

I once contacted these people who sold me a flat belt to use on my Austin 7 fan drive.

https://www.chiorino.com/en/worldwide.php?stato_link=United%20Kingdom&sel=Europe

Phil

How about this from simple search for canvass belting, which is what they made them from back in the day.

Paul,

These belts were approx 40ft long

An old leather belt thinned down with a simple jig and cut to the correct width. I have used old leather shoe laces thinned down for some decorative bits on bowls by doing this. I can't show the jig as it went in the bin and I need to replace it when I get around to it.

Not sure if it's a date thing, or a location thing, but all the belts hung up in the back of the barn on my grandfather's farm in West Wales were canvas. (There were about half a dozen: about 8" wide and rolled up into a coil about 3' across.) These would have last seen use in the 1940s or 1950s – my mum was born in the 1940s and remembers the threshing machine coming to the farm.

In the 1970s he still used flat belts to drive a feed mill and a terrifying circular saw from the tractor. These belts were also canvas with metal 'claw' joiners. The belts were dressed on the inside face with what looked like an oversized lipstick – the outer case was about the size of a 'Smarties' tubs and made of orange cardboard.

Edited By Andy_G on 21/02/2021 14:25:39

One of the mills that I enjoyed using in the training school had flat belt drive. The "tick, tick" of the fasteners passing over the pulleys was most soporific!

At 1/20 scale the criss-cross sewing has to be the method to join them

Canvas flat belts seemed to work best with a big difference in tension between tight and slack sides, since T1 – T2 needs to be large to transmit the power. Hence film of T E s driving thrashing boxes always had a big sag in the slack side of the belt.

Howard.

I think that the Saddler in Ware still makes belts for machinery. I was there once and the owner told me that they had a commission to make belts for the luggage conveyor at an Airport.

Sadly, the shop is rarely open these days because they prefer to sell by Mail Order.

MC

LSM sell it along with the crocodile clips would think the 1/2" or 5/8" governor belting OK for your 2" model rather than the flywheel drive belting which would be too wide.

Edited By JasonB on 23/02/2021 13:19:29

Any of them Rob, the point was they are all canvas

I used to own a velo and it had flat belt drive for the dynamo, I had it made in Norwich ( local to me ) by a transmission company . It was scarfed and vulcanised and I ran the bike for years with no trouble. The material was green on the outside and black inside. Haley’s might be a good place to start.