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Re: Bearings vs Bearing Blocks

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Originally Posted by DampRobot View Post
In the case of c-c designs that asid was talking about, the wall of the tubing retains the chain, which keeps it from coming off or ratcheting on the sprockets, which makes the stretch less of an issue.
Hhm, this could be a key part of the root cause. Any ratcheting increases stretch. Therefore a system that never ratchets would stretch much slower overtime than one that ratchets ever 50 operations or so.