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Originally Posted by Oblarg
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.
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+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.