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Project Rollers...
TACX overpriced rubber belt thing ordered. Tried it today with ~4mm nylon cord, despite putting a fair amount of tension on it, it just loved to slip and twist over itself working itself out of the groove. £10 spent so far can't be bad though!
Now have 3 out of required 6 bearings moving, left them soaking in some fowl machine shop release agent over the weekend, by monday they will have either released and be perfect, or will have dissolved to the bottom of the tank into a gloopy blue plastic & stainless steel blob.
As for roller on a roller concept. Found some lengths of similar alu section that will do the frame, but none quite long enough, so fish plates and bolts going to be required. For the little wheels going to turn down some 25mm HDPP plastic sheet (got stacks of it) then mount them on coach bolts into the frame, almost instant self lubricating bearings! whoop whoop whoop.