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- From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ron Bense)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Fan belts w/teeth
- Message-ID: <24117@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 12:23:25 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.043609.16994@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In rec.autos.tech, tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) writes:
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- >here's the problem: the old ones have teeth in them (actually,
- >the teeth are so wide that it would be more accurate to say that
- >the belt has slits in it). the new ones don't.
-
- >catalog. is there something i'm missing here? what the hell are the
- >teeth for?
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- They're cogged belts. The slits relieve stress in the belt to help them
- serve a longer, reliable life. The multi-ribbed belts do a real contortionist's
- act around all the pulleys, which really places a lot of stress in the
- belt. The cogs, or slits, reduce bending stresses as the belt curves
- and recurves.
-
- Ron
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- Potassium Benzoate included as a preserver.
-