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Originally Posted by Ben Piecuch
Since I designed and fabricated those tensioners, I can tell you that we did not used any sort of grip-tape between the tensioner and the bolt. We make sure to use as large of a washer as we could, to increase the loaded surface area. As long as your contact area on both sides is large enough, these types of tensioners should not slip on you.
If you find that you're having problems with them slipping, you can always use a "toothed washer" to help grip against the material.
This should alleviate your "grip tape" dilemna.
BEN
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Ben, we have used that same design as well sucessfully, but I did have one question for you. When you torque them down nice and tight after tensioning the chains, the chain seems to make grooves in the Delrin. Nothing a simple readjustment can't fix but sometimes the forces at work make an even more interesting problem.
Basically, if you only attach the delrin rods on one end, they tend to bend away from what they are mounted on. Just wondering if you had a solution for that or even ran into that problem?
If you don't get what I mean as of yet, I'll grab a pic and link it tomorrow or later tonight.