Again, the oversized chains wouldn’t be necessary with the boom and the stock chains would still be used meaning it wouldn’t require rewiring. To eliminate the stock chains would mean rewiring… not replacing, but removing them.
It doesn’t and people have needed as much as 2x 2" extensions, and possibly an extra boot extension adapter as well to make it work, as i said above.
I don’t think it’s possible that anyone needed 4" of extension to support a drag chain that’s only 30mm wider than the stock drag chain. If any extension is required it could only be a very small extension.
I think we’re talking about different things or something. Replacing the stock drag chains is not tedious, and it’s a pretty elegant solution. Drag chains are very widely deployed as the solution of choice in applications like this.
Correct. Again, I was talking about eliminating them, as in there would be no chains at all. The need to replace them wouldn’t exist as a need with the boom.
If an overhead solution allows my vacuum and coolant lines then for me it would b e a preferred solution.
My electrical will rout to the front left corner of the elite foreman and the coolant lines and vacuum will rout to the back left.
Then I get to keep the stock drag chain.
In Canadian funds the 18 X 50 drag chain including L shaped aluminum extrusion brackets etc. is over 300$
An overhead solution looks like the least amount of work and won’t cost as much.
