Belts are like tires & hoses. The industry marches on, the manufacturers
adapt their manufacturing lines to what's being manufactured today, and all
the sudden you have parts that just-almost-fit.

Thanks, Tom Hargrave
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
neil n
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 11:40 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Subject: German quality?

Heh.

For me, the simplest mental image is to picture a string cut and fit to the
inner circumference, being then strung along outer circumference. It will be
too short. Which is kind of fascinating to me since if you cut the belt and
measure.... some kind of Pretzel Logic voodoo.

On my engine, since the accessory ribbed belt routing isn't exactly stock,
using numbers from Contitech to Gates didn't seem to jibe. But that belt is
pretty thin so in hindsight, not as critical or at least not as much
difference in measuring inner/outer circumference I guess.

My gut tells me that if there were a standard in the belt industry, outer
circumference would be the rule for measure of belt "length".

Neil.

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Hopefully I'm not revealing a complete lack of geometry and basic
> math her but...."
>
> I asked the same question about a year ago. And received a similar answer.
> Looked at the reference, blinked, shook my head, closed the page and
> vowed I would never, ever, think about this again.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
>
> On 08/15/2013 02:30 PM, neil n wrote:
>
>> Hopefully I'm not revealing a complete lack of geometry and basic math
her
>> but....   ;)
>>
>>

--
Neil n

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