Now you might ask why I did not use a filler like XTC to smooth the plates. This took about 2 days to smooth the print out, I have never in my life had so much fun! HAHAHA! Then I proceeded to sand going from 100 grit all the way to 320 grit. I repeated this till all the gaps were gone. After the glued had fully cured on the main plate I sanded them with 100 grit paper then filled the gaps with auto body filled, in this case bondo, but any filler will work. Each plate was 12.5mm thick (1 half inch). The side plates were small enough that they could be printed on the bed in 1 part. The 3D print was done in several parts on my Makerbot rep2 and then glued together using 5 minute epoxy. Also I am not showing both plates in all these steps as you may notice because the process for both of these belts was the same just a different shape. Now if you are doing a project like this you don't need a 3D printer, I just have one and for this build it worked well. So in step 1 I said the 3D files would come in handy for this build and that's because I used my 3D printer to make the mater plates so I can later make molds of them and cast the plates in resin. All the sand paper (grit from 100 to 320)
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