Originally Posted by
Grand Bois
One link is one inch. You are referring to half links.
technically this is correct. (at least it is in every other industry i am aware of)
Originally Posted by
nhluhr
I started to say exactly the same thing, but then realized chain manufacturers refer to a single link as the half-inch section. A standard new chain being 110 links is not 110" long. But yeah, the "wrap around big/big and add one" means add one 1" section.
Originally Posted by
DaveSSS
Chains are advertised as having 112 or 114 links. That makes a link 1/2 inch. Find me a chain that is advertised as having only 56-67 links.
while bicycle chain is sold this way, Grand Bois is correct. in industrial applications chain is measured in number of pitches. an industrial engineer would tell you that i bicycle chain is 112 or 114 pitches long or 56-67 links. in this environment a "half link" for a bicycle chain would be a 1/2in section.
what a cyclist calls a half link would be referred to as an offset link:
why are these two environments different? i have no idea