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Originally Posted by TheModMaster8
That is weird lol, though you when chain get slack it has sideways play meaning if you run chain too close to a bolt or wheel, you'll run into some problems. Belt has not play, and it can take a hit and be fine, though it really just comes down to what works best for the individual  |
Sometimes the chain is its own worst enemy; we had the bent-clip-to-hold-the-plate half-links in our #25 chain this year and it blew itself apart hitting the other half-link in the travel. Whoops. Switching to a Dark Soul tool and better half-links that don't have the pin made things much better. (The nice thing about a tube frame: it's pretty hard for your chain to take a hit, except from itself apparently!)
I would be open to a belt-in-tube frame, because I definitely see the upsides from running belts in the AM14U series, but the packaging just wasn't going to happen in this year's robot.