Thread: Questions about building a West Coast Drive with VersaChassis
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Re: Questions about building a West Coast Drive with VersaChassis
If you use #25 chain, get Dark Soul Chain tool, which costs about $40 with shipping. It eliminates the connecting links (weak links).

Chain for one WCD costs $10 vs ~$50 for four belts, so it pays for itself. With the sale on the AndyMark pulleys, the cost isn't much different either way, so I would focus more on whether you'd rather end up with belts or chains. I think it would be cool to run belts, but I also like having a bunch of sprockets and chain around so we can make up a manipulator chain connection pretty easily without ordering a specific belt or stocking a dozen different belt sizes. Chain is annoying in some ways, though.