small belts

[Philip BurleyParticipant @philipburley44197]

[Philip BurleyParticipant @philipburley44197]

I have been looking for a belt to run a governor on my steam engine . Rather than the spring ones . needs to be about 12 inch long about 1/8 wide . . , I cant find anything in this country , have anyone come across something similar ?

[Bodger BrianParticipant @bodgerbrian]

Posted by Philip Burley on 23/06/2019 18:19:45

 

I cant find anything in this country , have anyone come across something similar ?

Which country? It helps with requests like this if you say where you are.

Brian

Edited By Bodger Brian on 23/06/2019 18:43:32

[Philip BurleyParticipant @philipburley44197]

sorry I am in UK , it seems suitable belts are available in USA , I do have a couple of elastic bands from the post man , but not sure when to obtain similar ones , these degrade quite quickly

Phil

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Spare belts for things like tape recorders work quite well, you may need to split something down the middle as 3mm in that sort of length is hard to find but 5-6mm are about such as this

[David George 1Participant @davidgeorge1]

Have you tried Beltingonline.com I bought a 6mm wide belt for my small lathe from them it cost a few pounds and just tried their web site and it accepted 3mm.

David

[Former MemberParticipant @formermember19781]

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[Pete RimmerParticipant @peterimmer30576]

Get the right length and appropriate pitch poly-vee belt and cut it down to the width you need. I've done that to replace a round belt on the narrow pulleys. Works wonderfully well.

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

You can get O-ring material in continuous lengths, make a loop by joining with superglue in a jig. Or may be able to get a suitable large 1/3 or 3 mm O ring?

[HollowpointParticipant @hollowpoint]

What about the PU belt you weld together with heat. I believe you can get that in small sizes.

[Philip BurleyParticipant @philipburley44197]

thanks ,I will try Forest Classics and Beltingonline and see what turns up

Phil

[Dennis DParticipant @dennisd]

Try these people looks like they may be on holiday at present but have had fast delivery when ordered **LINK**

[Paul LousickParticipant @paullousick59116]

3D printer timing belt is 6mm wide. Join ends together with Loctite, same as you join O-ring material. Run on the tooth side of the belt or alternatively on the ftat side.

Paul.

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

If you cannot find a source of the spring belts used for Meccano, the garter springs from lip seals (oil seals ) are the same. To shorten, you need to cut the spring and then carefully unwind the wire of the cut end, to expose the tapered end. Having arrived at the required length, you then twist to the free end, a few turns, in the opposite direction that is required to "screw" the belt back together, so that when rejoined it is has minimal twist.

Howard

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