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All information • Hollow Pin Chains • Polymer Block Chains in preference to any other form of chain information and guidance, which it contained in this catalogue is subject joint. The use of other connectors and has not been possible to include in the to change without notice. • Made to Order, Special Chains • Side Bow Chains cranked links (No 12 and No 30) must publication, should be obtained by you • Mini Pitch Chains • Stainless Steel Chains Illustrations - The illustrations used always be restricted to light duty, non- from your local sales office in relation in this catalogue represent the type critical applications, in drives where an to the suitability and the safe and proper of product described but the goods Applications odd number of pitches is absolutely use of the product. All relevant information supplied may vary in some detail from unavoidable. Wherever possible, drives and guidance must be passed on by you • Abattoirs • Air Conditioning • Aircraft - Civil & Military • Bakery Machines • Battery Manufacturing those illustrated. should have sufficient overall adjustment to the person engaged in, or likely to be • Brewing • Canning • Carpet Machines • Chart Tables/Marine • Chocolate Manufacturing Specifications - The right is reserved to • Concrete Moulding Equipment • Copying Machines • Dairy Machinery • Drying Machinery to ensure the use of an even number of affected by or responsible for the use of • Earth Moving Equipment • Extrusion Machines • Filtration Plants • Food & Drink Manufacture pitches throughout the useful life of the the product. make modifications to the product to • Glass Manufacture • Health Care Equipment • Hydraulic Components • Ice-Cream Manufacture chain. A cranked link joint should only be meet manufacturing conditions and/or • In-flight Refuelling • Ingot Casting & Scrap Metal Processing • Latex Machinery • Laundry Machinery used as a last resort. developments (for example in design • Lawnmower Manufacture • Mill Machinery • Mining • MOT Brake Testing Machinery • Nuclear Power Chain performance or materials). • Off Road Vehicles • Oil Industry • Packaging Machines • Paper & Card Making • Paper Shredders • Plastic Machinery • Potato Grading Machinery • Power Generation • Printing Machines • Quarry Plant The performance levels and tolerances Renold - Product can be supplied by • Road Making & Plant Machinery • Robotic Systems • Roof Tile Manufacture • Ship's Engines of our product stated in this catalogue Renold companies or representatives • Silkscreen Machinery • Ski-Lifts • Soot Blowers • Steel Making • Straddle Carriers • Sugar Beet Machines • (including without limitation, serviceability, around the world on the standard terms Sun-Blinds • Telecommunications • Textile Machinery • Timber and Woodworking Machines wear life, resistance to fatigue, corrosion and conditions of sale of the company • Tin Printer Ovens • Tobacco/Cigarette Machinery • Tunnelling Machines • T.V. and Audio Equipment • Tyre Manufacture • Waste Handling • X-Ray Equipment protection) have been verified in a or representative from which the product programme of testing and quality control is purchased. in accordance with Renold, independent Conveyor Chain and/or international standard recommendations. Copyright - Copyright Renold Power • British, ISO and Works • Escalator Chains Transmission Limited 2010. All rights Standard Chains • Made to Order, Specials No representations or warranties are reserved. given that our product shall meet the • Adapted Chains • Stainless Steel Chains stated performance levels or tolerances • Agricultural Chains • Sugar Cane Chains for any given application outside the Nothing contained in this publication • Zinc Plated Chains • Bakery Chains performance levels and tolerances for the shall constitute a part of any contract, • Deep Link Chains product’s own specific application and express or implied. environment. Applications • Abattoirs • Agricultural Machines • Bakery Machines • Bottle Washing Plants • Brick & Tile Machinery OEM • Car Plants • Cement Plants • Chemical Plants • Chicken Process Equipment • Cigarette/Tobacco Machinery • Dust Filters • Egg Sorting Conveyors • Electrical Switchgears • Escalators • Extrusion Machines • Feed Mill Machines • Feed Silo Equipment • Fibreglass Industry • Filtration Plants • Fish Conveyor • Food Sterilisation • Food Processing • Freezing Equipment • Freezing Tunnels • Glass Manufacturing • Grain Conveyor • Harvesting Machines • Ice Cream Machines • Induction Furnaces • Ingot Casting & Scrap Metal Processing Mfr • Latex Machinery • Leisure Rides • Luggage & Parcel Handling • Machine Tools • Mail Sorting • Metal Casting • Mushroom Compost Machinery • Nuclear • Ovens/Provers • Potato Grading Machinery • Potting Machinery • Quarries • Radio Astronomy • Roof Tile Manufacture • Rope Machinery • Saw Mill Equipment • Sewage Plants • Shaker Conveyors • Ski-Lifts • Sluice Gates • Steel Making • Sugar Factories • Swarf Conveyors • Textile Machinery • Timber & Woodworking Machines • Tool Changer • Tunnelling Machines • Tyre Manufacture • Washing & Sterilising Machines • Water Treatment • Wire Belts Lifting Chain • LH(BL), AL, LL and Works Standard Chains Applications • Bottle Washing Plants • Cement Plants • Chemical • Counterbalance Sets • Cranes • Dust/Swarf Conveyors • Elevators • Food Processing • Food Sterilisation • Fork Lift Trucks • Pipe Line Valves/Taps • Printing Machines • Rock Drilling • Straddle Carriers • Sun-Blinds • Tail Lifts Installation, maintenance & designer guide I 3 Table of Contents Section 1 - Chain Installation and Maintenance Section 2 - Designer Guide Sprocket alignment 6 Chain History 18 Installation / adjustment 7 Chain Performance 19 Maintenance schedule 8 Wear Factors 20 Lubrication, methods 9 Chain Wear, measurement