Gates 2.4m EPDM Belts

These belts started as Closed loop belts meaning they are not long-length belts, they are the belts used to cut long-length belts however so will be marked as such. These are custom cut on the machine so they don’t have the downsides of long-length belts.

“Long-Length belting is produced in Spiral form. Spiral cut belting is produced from a belt sleeve by moving the slitter laterally while the belt sleeve is rotating. The resulting belting does not have continuous tensile cords, and the teeth are not perfectly perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the belt. As long as the belt width is narrow, these properties have been found to contribute little if any detrimental effects to belt performance. Tensile modulus and strength are equivalent to conventional endless and long length belting.”

Source: https://www.gates.com/content/dam/gates/home/knowledge-center/resource-library/catalogs/light-power-and-precision-manual.pdf

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