Re: sprockets?

"She had a significant wiggle in her get-along!"

I'm not sure if this was Jimmie Durantie or possible Red Skelton ?

anyway, back to the topic, I assumed that timing belts were better
than gears and offers little if any play in a drive train.

Here and I was hoping to use a single stepper and drive a pair of
lead screws by just expanding the distance with a couple long belts.

Dave

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., JanRwl@A... wrote:
> In a message dated 12-Jul-02 08:40:43 Central Daylight Time,
> jfbell@e... writes:
>
>
> > I had thought that the timing belts, cogged belts, would not
introduce
> > 'play' into the system. How is this possible?
>
> You haven't actually assembled motors, pulleys, belts, and loads,
and
> "watched it all work", much, have you? There was a comedian, name
of whom I
> now forget, in the sixties, who had a line that kinda explains "how
this is
> possible": "She had a significant wiggle in her get-along!"
>
>
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