Dave Richards
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Drum roll please. Direct from the shop of Richards Over-Engineering, Ltd.
This is a jig I made out of scraps to splice the ends of some sort of synthetic rubber belt material. The belt will be used to pick up and transport balls to a launcher on the robot being built for the First Robotics competition. There are only two splices to make and I expect it's overkill but the splices need to be flat and the belt straight. The orange stuff is a short piece of the belt. there's a long fence to use for aligning the belt and a couple of toggle clamps with pads to hold the belt in place.
In use the ends of the belt will overlap by about 3/4 in the gap. The ends will be heated by a heat gun and then the Belt Masher® will side in under the belt...
... and the top masher will be clamped in place. The washers are the same thickness as the belt so theoretically the splice will be the same thickness as the rest of the belt. Might need to do a little trimming along the edges with a sharp knife but that should be easy enough.
You might be surprised to know that I didn't even open SketchUp for this. I just made it up as I went along.
This is a jig I made out of scraps to splice the ends of some sort of synthetic rubber belt material. The belt will be used to pick up and transport balls to a launcher on the robot being built for the First Robotics competition. There are only two splices to make and I expect it's overkill but the splices need to be flat and the belt straight. The orange stuff is a short piece of the belt. there's a long fence to use for aligning the belt and a couple of toggle clamps with pads to hold the belt in place.
In use the ends of the belt will overlap by about 3/4 in the gap. The ends will be heated by a heat gun and then the Belt Masher® will side in under the belt...
... and the top masher will be clamped in place. The washers are the same thickness as the belt so theoretically the splice will be the same thickness as the rest of the belt. Might need to do a little trimming along the edges with a sharp knife but that should be easy enough.
You might be surprised to know that I didn't even open SketchUp for this. I just made it up as I went along.