There are some designs for harmonic reducers that use a rubber timing belt as the flexible gear. It seems like these might last nearly forever.
But 99% of the stuff on Thingiverse needs for development work. People post their project as soon as they reach the "demo" stage and they are mostly not finished products, just some guy's experiment. So you should expect to need to modify and redesign a few more interactions. That is the neat thing about open source, if it doesn't work you can change it. So, there are quite a few demos that use timing belts _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
