ah here’s a thought, if you stay on 8sp you may be able to use a 10sp clutch mech if the pull ratios are enough of a match
My memory is 10s has twice the cable pull?
Who fitted the chain? That’s the most likely cause of the break.
Otherwise…classic small sample size story that is pretty meaningless.
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and what does that 2nd part even mean. [/quote]
It means if you are saying that NW chainrings break and drop chains (I don’t see what else your post is meant to say) then you should be testing that theory by having a decent number (sample size) of bikes, riders, miles to see how often it happens. You have 1 bike, 1 rider, 1 ride – a sample size of 1.
It’s like riding a shimano chain once, breaking it, then riding a sram chain once and not breaking it and saying “all shimano chains break and all sram ones don’t”.