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Originally Posted by Cory
Team 258 made the mistake Kevin just described this weekend, and after tensioning it quite a bit, they sheared their drive shaft in half.
The only thing I like about the 80/20 we use is the ability to slide our wheels to compensate for chain slackness.
Cory
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Heh. Actually, we made some stupider mistakes than that. The tention on the chain was fine, but the output shafts from our drive gearboxes were cantilevered out into the open. Words of wisdom: never do this. Another problem we had was that the shaft was pinned off-center. If we hadn't had these other problems, we would have been fine.