chain tensioner

just wanted to share a few pics with all of you of the tensioner i fabbed over the weekend. I used a roller skate wheel I got for free from the local roller rink , then I modified a bmx brake arm with a internal spring , then fabbed up a new bracket, and had cut up the stock mount, modified it then re-used it as the bracket clamp ! a little paint to clean up the roller skate wheel and a few new bolts with acorn nuts for decoration and tweak here and there and wa-lah , the perfect tensioner. I appreciate so many who have replied to me about a tensioner and sharing ideas, that I have come up with my own application that works for me. hope you enjoy!

the set up works good as is , as long as no one tells the chain that!(the chain doesnt know where the pivot is at!) but thank you for the advice I may turn that around just to see if better or not!

a roller skate wheel , free from my local roller rink ; a used brake arm from my personnel stash of goodies and then fabbed up a new bracket. the brake arm was used originally for a brake that mounts on a post on the frame of a bike, it has the small round spring inside that you can mount in different holes for the type of tension that you needed for your brakes. when I fabbed the new bracket , I drilled a 5/16" hole in the bracket ; then drilled a series of 1/8" holes around the larger hole for different tension settings and located the spring to the hole which best suited my needs. On both points (roller/pivot) I used 5/16" bolts with nylon locking nuts then decorated with acorn nuts. the little system works really well to my application.(necessity is the mother of invention)
well thats about every thing in a nut shell , if you have more questions feel free to ask