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Re: Conveying along chain

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Originally Posted by ollien View Post
I've been googling around about this for the past couple of hours, but I can't seem to wrap my head around how teams are utilizing chains for linear motion. Currently, the best item I can find to do something like this would be something like this But my gut tells me that these would be rather fragile for anything more than a few pounds. If I wanted to move a load along a chain, how would I best accomplish this?
We used these back in 2013, and we had hardened steel 6-32 bolts. They could withstand 600 pounds of force before sheering. We never had a problem with them. We actually damaged the hook and the chain and bolts were fine.
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