Industrial bike chain
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Yup, garage door opener chain. Then to the bmx crowd for heavy duty, or even different pitch monster chain.
Worksman is a 1/2x 3/16 or you want thicker I've gottem thicker.
Depends on what you mean by "industrial-style".
If you want something that can still run on regular bicycle sprockets, then you would be limited to half-inch pitch chain.
Standard single-speed bicycle chain has a rated breaking strength of somewhere around 900 lbs. There is no ANSI number for it.
ANSI #40 and #41 are half-inch pitch (the same as normal bicycle chain) but not significantly stronger than bicycle chain. Maybe 1100 lbs.
Bicycle chain has rollers 3/16" wide, #41 has rollers 1/4" wide and #40 has rollers 5/16" wide. The side plates of the wider ANSI chains are also slightly thicker than bicycle chain, which is why they have a slightly higher rating.
Multi-speed bicycle chain uses rollers even narrower than 3/16", and thinner sideplates. So that would be even weaker.
And, really, it's all overbuilt for JRA applications. Unless you're grinding, if you're breaking chains, you're set up wrong. Aside from casualties of grinding, chains die from stretching, not breaking.
Thanks Outsider13! That chain (and bikes) looks awesome!
Luke.
Luke.
