View Single Post
  #72   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 13-08-2016, 17:08
GeeTwo's Avatar
GeeTwo GeeTwo is offline
Technical Director
AKA: Gus Michel II
FRC #3946 (Tiger Robotics)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Jan 2014
Rookie Year: 2013
Location: Slidell, LA
Posts: 3,577
GeeTwo has a reputation beyond reputeGeeTwo has a reputation beyond reputeGeeTwo has a reputation beyond reputeGeeTwo has a reputation beyond reputeGeeTwo has a reputation beyond reputeGeeTwo has a reputation beyond reputeGeeTwo has a reputation beyond reputeGeeTwo has a reputation beyond reputeGeeTwo has a reputation beyond reputeGeeTwo has a reputation beyond reputeGeeTwo has a reputation beyond repute
Re: Chain vs. Belts?!?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Oblarg View Post
On #25 vs. #35 chain, my advice is to avoid the former unless you are certain of your team's machining precision. As I mentioned, #35 chain is already more sensitive to mis-aligned sprockets than belts - but #25 chain is *far* more sensitive than #35 chain, still. If you cannot align the sprockets extremely well, it will fail. My teams, which machine almost exclusively with a chopsaw and a drillpress, have abandoned #25 chain for this reason, and we do not regret it one bit.
+1. #25 has only worked well for us when alignment was due to COTS parts, rather than our own machining. Then again, I wish we did more machining with a chop saw and a drill press; I am fighting an uphill battle against the hand drill and the Dremel tool.
__________________

If you can't find time to do it right, how are you going to find time to do it over?
If you don't pass it on, it never happened.
Robots are great, but inspiration is the reason we're here.
Friends don't let friends use master links.
Reply With Quote