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Originally Posted by fastdruid
This would have been purchased I think 2004, I can't remember the grade off the top of my head but it was a gold 530 DID chain.
To be fair it was after ~30k. 
Druid |
That would be about right for an old stock chain. Despite it doing 30k it shouldn't have cracked a sideplate.
YC. The sideplates were cracking in all directions. Some had cracked from the pin outwards, & some had cracked along the length of the sideplate between the pins. This is what lead me to believe that the sideplates had been over stressed when they were pressed on during manufacture.
The worst one I had, was a 530 VM from a Bandit 600 that had 13 cracked plates, not including the one that snapped, or the one next to it that got mangled
Cheers.