Reasonable Expectation for Belt Life on SO3 XXL

[LiamN (Liam Newcombe)]

@Griff

In my experience steel have “failed” (distort, tell me to change them out) most quickly. Especially at “guitar string tight”. I’m not an engineer nor a machinist, I have no way to quantify, just my practical experience.

Did you try measuring the tension the phone app?

Measuring belt tension, squaring and calibration

A post about belt tension, how to measure it, what effect it has and why you need to manage belt tension in order to usefully calibrate and square the machine. As usual, no criticism of the machine here, in fact some quite clever design choices seem to have been made. The question of drive belt tension has been bugging me. How much you should have, how to check it and how it affects machine performance. I failed to find any quantitative data to use, so I went and started measuring; and found t…