Q&A: Do electric treadmills and manual treadmills have the same design?

Question by Confused: Do electric treadmills and manual treadmills have the same design?

I bought a manual treadmill. It has a double-flywheel on the front, which is supposed to make it more stable. However, it had a bent flywheel on the left side, which wobbled and made it go to the right constantly, no matter how much I adjusted the belt on each side. I called the manufacturer…they sent me a new flywheel. Took a week. Except for this time, it was bent on the same side as the first, and also slightly bent on the other. They don’t seem to want to answer for that now, but I’m going to get my money back for this thing, one way or another.

My main question is…do electric treadmills work in a similar way to these manual ones? Obviously, they have a motor and it’s ‘easier’ to walk on them because of that…but how are they designed? Flywheels? Mainly I’m wondering if I have to go through all of this ‘make sure each side of the back and front of the treadmill belt line up exactly’ bs. I have a flawed product and replacement part, for my current manual treadmill.
While the manual treadmill that I have would have adjusted properly had the parts not been bent from the manufacturer. But I also discovered that I don’t like the whole ‘adjust each side of the belt on the front and back’. Are electric treadmills easier than manuals, to adjust? I’m thinking about going electric…I’m convinced this manual treadmill company can’t do jack.

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Answer by the fox
good luck

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