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Re: Build season week 1

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Originally Posted by Alan Walker PE View Post
This is my fourth year in FRC as a mentor and my first post to Chief Delphi. My team started using bike chains last year. Why shouldn't we be using master links? Forgive me if I have not searched on "Master Links" before asking this question. I've never had much success with Chief Delphi. Earlier today, I learned at a local FRC workshop that for the best Chief Delphi results I should login, use the advanced search, and look at the date of the search results.
One trick of Chief Delphi is learning what search terms will yield the discussions you want to read about. Chief Delphi threads tend to wander off of their original topic, which is what I'm about to do.

When you say you started using bike chain, what pitch is the chain you're using? Modern bicycle chain is a narrow ANSI #40 pitch, or 1/2" pitch. The vast majority of applications for chain in FRC can be better solved with #25 or #35 chain, and the major suppliers for FRC stick with #25 and #35 sprockets and chain.
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