Thank you for posting such instructive videos ! They help people from a wide spectrum including hobbyists, industrialists, students, service techs....and more.

I know this is a little late to comment, given the date of the upload, (but I just came across your video) and I'm just going to make a small suggestion. When I first saw this wonderful material being used, it was at the Kodak Processing Lab, in the engineering and maintenance department here in Sydney, Australia way back in the '70s. The way they joined the ends was to put an old piece of hacksaw blade in a vice, heat it up with a blowtorch and place the ends of the round belting on either side of the blade and slide it up, off the top of the blade to get both ends to meet, thus welding them together. The use of the soldering iron is also a very good idea you used for finishing the job. Great video. Thanks. :)

It worked for me! I just used a candle and mashed the ends together. Despite not getting it together very quickly or accurately, it makes a VERY strong splice. I found that subtracting 10% makes the belt pretty tight. If you don't want an especially tight fit, you may want to err a little on the long side.

Read this somewhere else, but nail clippers will do a tidy job of removing excess material at the welded joint.

A very well done series. and good results as well, Thank you for sharing.

Good video, mate. I am just getting into making KZfaq videos any help and advice you could give me with what you use to make videos and editing them. I would like to thank you for pointing out these belts stretch 10%, which I didn't know and have helped me with measurements. Thanks David

Nice video... Consider this for ur paint can shaker..a old saws all blade, empty plastic peanut container, rivet blade to plastic container, put paint can in plastic container, turn on saws all or reciprocating saw... mixes up in about 1 minute... medium speed works the best.👍🙏

I heated the belt with a Styrocutter, works fine.

Good result. I think I'd use the razor blade to carefully trim the flash away though.

Thanx for answer spat mon,will order some cheers

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

You didn't show how it was mended

Who is a good supplier of small metal pulleys? 4mm or 3/16" bore

great videos sir

What's the rule of thumb for diameter sizing the round urethane belt?

can you get the belting from home depot?

great simple video takes the rocket science out of it that other ramble on about especially for everyday stuff and that belt is cheap enough if you have to make a few life goes on all good

Great video series. I'm thinking about scaling a shak-o-matic up to shake gallon cans.

Where do you get the lenghts of polyurethane from,Thanks

will this work on a mini lathe ??

Do you have an older brother named Tiff?

Just and observation here.. Why would you not do the math FIRST and THEN CUT 13.5” instead of cutting 15” then throwing away 10% ??