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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
I'm not sure what you mean by tension by hand. Do you mean try to stretch the train onto the sprockets? that won't work.
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We were able to tension by hand two years ago--we had #25 chain running on two sides of our robot in two different loops to turn the wheels, and we used turnbuckles as our "master-links" in order to tension it by hand. Easy as pie.
It seemed to work okay, although after a competition or two the turnbuckle would break because it was some cheap thing from a local hardware store. If you got a bigger/nicer turnbuckle, that could work. But you should be sure that you have enough chain that the turnbuckles don't go anywhere near the sprockets!
Just an option.
Nikhil