Team 4592 Offseason Drivetrain

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Originally Posted by Chris Endres

I have never seen a part like that be made, I would be really surprised to see a manufacturer can bend a part like that.

In terms of the chain, you may want to design this for the compatibility of both, it's a good designing standard for first iterations to have a backup plan, it would suck to make this and realize it doesn't work like planned.

Also, you can use this calculator to get close to a perfect tension, I know 118 used this method last year.
http://www.botlanta.org/converters/d.../sprocket.html

When going direct C-C on chain, make sure that your sheet metal sponsor can hold those tolerances.
Also for FRC, you should add around 0.017 - 0.019" to your C-C distance due to manufacturing tolerances on the sprockets and chain. See this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...4&postcount=26