Take a chainsaw chain as an extreme example, I’ll leave the cutter issue alone as this is a seperate component altogether.
Now chainsaw chains are made from some very high tensile, high carbon chromium metals, they are covered in crud and some of the timbers have up to 17% silica content, they must be lubricated constantly, if they aren’t the pins/rollers die very very quickly, quite often plain seizing, they run hot as hades and the main issue is sideplate stretch, now oregon chain doesn’t quite stretch as badly as Stihl brand does, but that has to do with heat treatment at the production end. They don’t wear out pins and rollers despite being covered in “grinding Paste” constantly it stretches from heat rather than wears from friction, because it is lubed. Now our pins and rollers don’t seem to wear much when lubricated, if left unlubricated they do, so all we are left to content with is sideplate stretch, which comes back to tensioing, torque, heat and quality of components.
Mick lanox is great stuff, just don’t use it for long term coating like I did on some flatslides…..the bloke who bought them still swears at me about trying to cleanit off once it had dried into a thick brown gunk…..:dry:
cause he’ll be up for a new tyre on the back of the BRP.