On 3/1/2009 11:51 PM N_Cook spake thus:

Another potential use for Dunstable or Tuscan plait is making up flat but
thin rubber drive belts for certain types of equipment. The flat belts
available are either too long (vinyl decks) or too thick (unless the length
is just right , the tension in the band overloads the low rev motors).
But using 7 strands of 1mm rubber cord plaited together may just work. I've
previously tried 3-ply plaiting of 3 flats of 3ply plait but it was only
just about useable. So is it possible to make a flat ring by returning the
end to the start ?

You're talking about *making* a belt for a turntable by plaiting rubber
strands? Do I understand you correctly?

You're nuts, man. Bonkers. All that diddling around with cobbling and
jury-rigging stuff has left you a little soft in the head.

Now, I'll admit when I was a kid (early 20s), I did once have a
belt-drive turntable that was missing a belt, and I used to make belts
out of paper strips glued at the ends. Worked well, but didn't last too
long, as you might imagine. But I was young and broke. Presumably you
*could* find the proper belt for that turntable if you looked in the
right places ...


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