Sunbeam/Oster breadmaker belt.

Is easy to use

Was shipped rapidly and received it in just a very few days. Worked perfectly.Mine is a Sunbeam/Oster Model 4812 and the belt (I cut the old one to measure accurately) is exactly 24" (stretched tight) x 1/4". both old and new have three longitudinal grooves on the inner surface and transverse grooves on the outer surface. It wants to measure a bit less than 24" unless you lay it flat, press it down and pull tight. The old belt was grey, the new one black but both have what seems to be identical flexibility and no stretch. The 4812 has a large plastic pulley for the paddle drive 5 1/2" diameter (outer edges), the metal motor drive is about 7/8" diameter (outer edge) and the distance between (center to center) 6 3/4". You have to "roll" the new belt onto the pulleys by putting it onto the large pulley and sort of starting it onto the small pulley and holding it there while you then turn the large pulley to pull the belt onto the small pulley.

We like our bread maker and use it all the time. So after it stopped working I took it apart to find out what I can do. I saw that I can replace it and started looking for it. On Amazon I found a listing for this belt. It told me that it is a fit for all kinds of numbers etc. . The etc is what got me screwed. The price was good , so I ordered it. With shipping it still was much better then everywhere else. We were very excited when it was delivered. So after a few days I decided to put it in. What I found out is, that it was the wrong belt. Too big. I thought no problem, I just call the company and let them send me the right one.Totally wrong thought. So I called the company and explained my matter. At first the lay was very nice and tried to help. However, only for a few minutes. She told my model number is not listed. I went to the site and yes, she was right. Now I did not see my model number although I specifically searched on it on Amazon. However, the etc is still there, which means it gives a person the impression it fits many.I told her that it is no problem, I will send it back for a refund. Then I was told, that I have to pay to send it back and I will not get reimbursed for any shipping. Excuse me? So I am mislead, pay , pay 3.55 for an envelope which costs by far less to send actually paying the envelope for them and now I have to pay again to get my money back? Unreal. I stated my concern but found that the lady did not care and actually told me that she tries to stay calm. LOL. Now how is that for customer service. Actually it is not. So here I am. We can not get the job done, we will lose $ for nothing and have to look again. If you want to make sure you get good service and the right part for your machine, do not buy anything from this company. While it might be true that they send some good parts at times, they do not care at all about the customer. There is plenty of great businesses out there who take care of customers and in this times you are in control where you bring your business. I just found the shipping cost for this package. It will be 2.06 for the envelope and I will add tracking to make sure I know they got it. So all together we will have paid 6.55 $ for shipping plus printer and tape for a part which does not work and without getting it back. It is beyond me that Amazon allows this seller to be listed.

This was much cheaper than a new bread machine and not difficult to replace.

Googling for a belt for the Regal K6725 suggests that this belt should fit. However, it's slightly too long; you could add a tensioner pulley (possibly from a VCR, I was thinking, though one person posted that a pulley from a screen door worked). Another post suggests stretching a very large O-ring, saying a 6 inch O-ring stretched enough. A larger main pulley replacement might do the job too.Anyway, this belt isn't a drop-in replacement for this machine. (The listing does NOT suggest that it is, so don't hold it against them; blame the people who posted it on other sites.)

In response to a review from January 23rd 2014, I also own a Regal K6725 and purchased this belt with the advice of having rubber bands handy, but it fit perfectly and was actually a bit smaller than the other replacement belt I had found online (which I believe was meant for the one with gears as it had vertical ridges). So far I have only used this once and it worked great! I will write a new review if it fails later.

The belt arrived earlier than expected and was an easy 5 min. replacement. My mother has owned several bread machines and they all went out,so every 6 months to a year she was replacing them. This bread-machine was very good and so she asked me to fix the problem.I found out it was the belt (as probably the problem was with the others). Fixing the belt was silly so I went online and found this belt. MY mum has been using the bread-machine for a while now and has had no problem.Also saved a good amount of money in not having to go out and purchase a new bread-machine.Would definitely purchase again.

This belt certainly appears to be the proper replacement, but does not function properly. The belt is slightly larger than the original and is made of plastic or nylon material instead of the rubberized material of the original. The material of the new belt, and the slight increase in size, allows it to slip on the large nylon pulley as soon as the dough becomes sticky.The only bright spot in this purchase, and the reason I give it 2 stars and not 1, was the response from Goodman's. My complaint brought a speedy reply and refund. At this point I would not hesitate to do business with them in the future.