DeepDiver wrote:
"Nick Hull" wrote in message
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My Dixon ZTR lawnmower has the main traction v-belt failing and needs
replacing. Looks like a real dog of a job, I obviously have to remove 3
other v-belts and a countershaft, plus other stuff I don't know about
yet. Looks like they dropped the belt on the assembly line and built
the lawnmower around it. Seems like a good place to use a segmented
belt, BUT there is an idler pully that bears on the outside of the belt.
Will this cause any trouble?


When you say the idler pulley bears on the outside, I assume you mean the
outer face of the belt, correct? I see no problem with this, as the locking
tabs of a PowerTwist belt run on the inside: the outer face of PowerTwist
belts are relatively flat.

Maybe your segmented belts are different from the ones I can buy in
England. The ones I can buy are pretty uneven on the outer surface,
despite the fact that the locking tabs run on the inside. I can't find a
manufacturer's name in the catalogue, but they aren't cheap. £100 ish
for a 5 m reel, and they don't sell short lengths. If you can find
someone who'll sell you a short length of segmented belt, by all means
try it, but personally I wouldn't risk buying a whole reel.

Chris