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Originally Posted by Bmcdonnell
I'm not really sure how we would do this though because I'm not on mechincal, but I'm hoping we succeed. Our chains broke in our final matches in Atlanta.
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Can you or someone else on your team elaborate on this a little bit more? I'm curious to how you actually broke chain, we've done some interesting (dumb) stuff with both #25 and #35 chain and have never actually broken the chain.
Usually, when teams have problems with chains it's because of implementation and not the actual chain itself. Proper alignment and tension have solved any issue that I've ever had with chains.
But, on the original topic, having a drive train that doesn't use chains is uncommon but not impossible. Personally, I'm biased towards the 25 method of building drive trains around gears, and I think I may experiment with this a bit in the off season. On thing you may want to consider about moving away from chains is that you'll need increased precision in your implementation to use just about anything else. I've found that #35 chain is pretty forgiving to loose tolerances, but gears and belts aren't...