Y Belt Slipped Out - Temporary Solution

My Y-Belt slipped out of the gripping slot today during a large print. I came up with what I feel is a good but somewhat temporary fix. Put a bolt through the large part of the slot and tighten it down, should prevent the belt from slipping out.

Hopefully this can help others before this happens during a print.

Jordan

Some permanent solution for this problem can be found here

[forums.reprap.org]

Matt

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Nice fix Jordan - Matt's solution grips like I don't know what, I can't get it to budge at all. I had to apply a bit of tightening afterwards since I'm too old (and manly) to do two things at once (pull hard and insert) - if you get the time to print a set then do. In my case the belt slipped along its length, rather than sideways (like yours seems to have done), but I guess yours will slip the other way eventually...


Ray

reading this back it looks like I'm putting innuendo into every line, but I'm seriously not

My non 3D printed solution
(Personally I dont think much of the original method of fastening and tensioning the Y belt. Its a classic example of one of those "Eureka" solutions that unfortunately just dont really work well in practise. You waste a print at least to find out whats wrong and possibly a lot of time trying to find why your prints are going wrong in the Y direction...

regards
Andy

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