Tunneled Timing Belt

[canadaduane]

I'm curious if anyone has previously used the interior of the makerslide as a place to put one side of the timing belt loop:



I'd been racking my brains trying to figure out how to modify bart's DSLR camera slider design to side-mount the motor and came up with this. I haven't seen it before, but I'm sure I'm not the first to design it (I'm never first, the internet has taught me so...

Duane Johnson
http://makerslider.com/

[bdring]

I like that design.

I have played with that idea before, but I always tried to do it with conventionally fabricated parts like sheet metal, laser cut or CNC routed parts and did not like what I came up with. I could probably machine your method if I used thick material.