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Old 11-06-2009
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Default Where can I find drive belts?

I'm trying to get my Losi Street Weapon back up and running, but Losi are no longer supporting the model so cannot find an original drive belt. I know that it is a 3mm width belt with 112 teeth and 3MR pitch, which makes them 336mm long. Does anyone know a company out there that either sells a range of belts or makes them to order? I don't want to start hacking the chassis up to put belt tensioners in sowould like something similar to original spec.

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If you truly struggle to find losi parts, drop welshy40 a pm on here, I think he has been in touch with someone that makes belts, cant be sure though
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Gates belts are available in lots of sizes, and can be custom made but they aint cheap, have a look at this site for a bit more info and contacts

http://www.beeline.co.uk/gates-drive-belts.aspx
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Cheers for the replies, I'm going to send Gates and email to ask about belts and will hopefully have a chat with Welshy tonight at racing, if he's coming.
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Cheers for the replies, I'm going to send Gates and email to ask about belts and will hopefully have a chat with Welshy tonight at racing, if he's coming.
Sorry mate, cant make it. I will give you the infor when I am next there.
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A few years back I had a belt made to order from Bearing Man Ltd in Telford, wasn't that expensive. They are part of a fairly big group of distributors. http://www.bml-hayley.co.uk/find_us.htm Use the link and find your nearest one and pop in to try and ensure you get exactly what you want.
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http://www.hpcgears.com/sitemap.htm

halfway down the page ...... loads of belts !

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http://www.york-ind.com/index.htm

http://www.motionco.co.uk/

worth a look I would have thought
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have you tried to make a xx4 buggy belt work?? maybe make a belt tensioner with bearings for under the belt like an old yok or something.
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Old 17-06-2009
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Rocking Donkey,

Did you get a response about the belts from Gates? I would be interested in getting some rear SW as well.

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