Loading…
29
A retired guy at the shop in Boise told me to toss the chain checker and use a ruler, and now I owe him a beer
I was about to replace a customer's chain last Tuesday because my $8 checker said it was shot at 0.75 percent wear, and this old guy who hangs around the shop told me to just measure 12 inches pin to pin with a steel ruler. I humored him, and the chain was only stretched about 3/32 of an inch, so the guy saved the customer $45 and me from eating crow. Anybody else find that the cheap ruler method beats the fancy gauge, or am I just getting lucky?
1 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In1 Comment
keithb1012d ago
Wait, your $8 checker told you 0.75 percent and the ruler showed only like 3/32 off? That gap seems huge to me, because 12 inches of chain wearing to 0.75 percent should be closer to 3/32 anyway, so those two numbers should roughly match up. Did the checker maybe have a burr on the pin or was the chain dirty when you tested it? Something sounds off about that gauge, not the method.
3