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Re: Average 2014 Chassis

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
Why do you list substituting chain for belts as an "enhancement"?
We really like the belts with 2 CIMs per side and kit wheels. No data yet when we increase to 3 CIMS, and increase to roughtop CoF. We ran 3 CIMs per side with roughtop and #25 chain last year with no issues, except that we kept delaminating the AM roughtop when pushing hard. This year we are switching to nitrile in an attempt to avoid that.

Short answer: belts might be just fine, but we are going with what we know works this time.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)