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Unread 03-05-2012, 11:23
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Re: Dual CIMs and #25 Chain

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Originally Posted by SuperNerd256 View Post
While that's cool, it's not fixing the problem. You need to understand that the CIMs are in NO WAY related to your chain failure. They're irrelevant to the topic. My advice: Keep all 4 CIMs running all the time, and be careful when using chain.

That's my advice. Take it or leave it as you choose.
I understand what you're getting at Andrew, and I agree that keeping 4 CIMs is probably the better choice. Saying 4 CIMs is in "NO WAY" related to the chain failure is pretty forward and probably wrong. You can put a lot more stress on your system with 4 CIMs than you can with 2.

We ran #25 chain from our center drive wheels to our outer drive wheels from '06-'08* and the only time we ever threw a chain was when we got a POOF ball stuck between our chassis rails. As others have said, #25 is fairly unforgiving to misalignment and spacing issues. Moving is the most important thing you can do in a match, so if you can't get those tolerances in line switching to #35 is probably the best choice.

*Those were before the SuperShifter, and we ran #35 from our Gen2 Shifters to the center drive wheels just to make sure we were going to be able to move no matter what.
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