While “one at a time” and “correctly” seemed to be the most frequent—and apparently most amusing—answers from our engineering team, after some consideration we thought this deserved an answer that was a bit more practical.

One mistake commonly made when …

To answer this question, let’s do a quick refresher on the ANSI part numbering system. The first digit(s) in each standard roller chain part number tells us the pitch of a chain in eighths of an inch. That means that …

To start, we should clarify that working load, also known as chain pull, and tensile strength are not the same. Working load describes the amount of linear pull exerted on a chain by a drive while tensile strength is the …