Chain reels

[openspaceman]

I 'phoned my local Stihl dealer enquiring about a 100' reel of .325" chain as we have a number of MS 260 and 262 saws. No one there was able to confirm my calculation of how many drive links in a reel.

 

I was working on .325 pitch x 2 per drive link and that works out about 1850 drive links per reel, sound reasonable?

[GardenKit]

There are 1840 links on a 100ft roll of Stihl .325 chain.

 

The part number of chain ends with 4 numbers. These are the number of links.

 

e.g. 0044 = 44 links, 1840 = 1840 links

[Goaty]

I googled .325 inches into feet, got 0.0270833 ft. divided 100ft by 0.0270833 =3692. 3 links

 

I may by wrong.

Edited February 11, 2014 by Goaty

[GardenKit]

You are almost right, just need to halve that figure as 1 link is equal to 2 pitches, as its made up of a link and a tie.

[Goaty]

You are almost right, just need to halve that figure as 1 link is equal to 2 pitches, as its made up of a link and a tie.

 

Ah ha. thank you I wondered why I was double, I worked on consecutive links alternatively being slightly different sizes and the pitch being the average between the two. And if there was a drive link on every link the chain wouldn't be able to go round the sprocket:001_rolleyes:

 

Thanks Barrie:thumbup1: