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Re: #25 Chain Drive Experience ???

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
Phil, we've seen the same thing. We generally just throw the ones like that away. They're so cheap it's not worth sending them back. On high torque low speed applications you can sometimes wait for them to break in, but on our shooter it was scary when they started jumping at 5k rpm.
#25 chain at 5k RPM in general sounds scary. We had to massage our sprocket sizes for our intake to ensure that we would not exceed the rated surface speed of #25 chain and that was substantially slower than a shooter wheel.
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