On 20/06/2019 04:13, Johnny B Good wrote:
I can think of one possible advantage, but I don't know whether it would
actually make any difference in reality - belt drives seem to have quite
a high tension and that puts a significant and constant side load on the
drum's rear bearing.

There may be some possibility of accelerating the wear a little and many
machines seem to have bearings that are difficult or even impossible to
replace these days.

The effect could well be negligible though.

You are quite correct.
Nope. Belt drives of the toothed varietyty add very little side load at all.

And all of this is dwarfed anyway by the masive sideloads that out of
balance washing imposes.




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