The Belt That Stretched and Lost Position We used a timing belt to drive a linear axis: 1 m travel, 10 kg carriage, 1 m/s speed. On the bench, positioning was fine. After a week, the repeatability went from ±0.05 mm to ±0.5 mm. The belt had stretched. The problem: we used a standard timing …

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