I am determined to make a better chain tensioner on the cheap. Since my first great tensioner idea was a failure, I'm wondering in anyone has tried something like this:
I have some jockey / idler pulleys from road bike derailleurs and they appear as though they would mesh nicely with the 415 chain. I found some screw on studs that fit perfectly with the jockey pulley from the bicycle derailleur.
My idea is to use two stainless steel fender washers to sandwich the pulley with appropriate spacers so that the chain would sit down into the pulley much like the stock cheapo tensioner except that it would have a nice little cog to ride on.
From there, it's just a matter of making a bracket and affixing it to the chain stay, squarely if at all possible.
Anybody tried anything like that?
=Timbone=