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Originally Posted by Peter Matteson
Two more questions to bother you with.
Can we get a close up shot of your tensioner?
What do you use for axles? They don't appear to go through the plates or be driven, meaning you could simply use a grade 8 bolt through one side and threaded into the other.
Like this...
(Will post pic from my home computer tonight)
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Close up shots will be posted this weekend by me (or sooner if borisdamole hears the request and goes to his livingroom).
It's almost identical to last year's. Pretty much it's just a block that sits in a piece of tubing. Screws pull the black away from the chain to tension, and there is a shoulder bolt in the block that the idler sits on. It was inspired by our drive in 2005/2006 where we used pillow blocks that were tensioned that way (same way the west coast drive has been tensioned sometimes... like 968 in '06. In fact, we originally got the idea from 60).
The axles are 3/8" 7075 hex we already had laying around. Just threaded one end 3/8-16. We considered bolts, but we wanted this base to be as light as possible.