[TheForge] Flatbelt excitement

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Just the opposite....

schade at acegroup.cc wrote:

>
> On May 26, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Mike Porter wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the warning Mike,
>> I have been planning to use flat belts in much lighter equipment, but 
>> hadn't
>> considered a spring loaded idler to be needed; now I'll include one.
>> Mikey
>>
>>
>
> I understand that there is a right side and a wrong side to put the 
> idler. If I remember right the idler should be on the powered side of 
> the belt rather than the slack side.
>
> Someone will know.
>
> Bob
>