Good & Cheap Chain Tool

[sejman]

My coworker has this tool, and it broke on the 2nd rivet the first time he used it.  The part that touches the rivet and side plate broke.

mitt

I can see that you can break the drive pin if you don't spend the five minutes to grind the head of a rivet down first.  After that there just isn't that much force needed to push the pin out.  Similarly, there really isn't that much force needed to mushroom over the rivet heads on the new master link.  How he managed to break the side plate I have no idea...

[mitt]

I can see that you can break the drive pin if you don't spend the five minutes to grind the head of a rivet down first.  After that there just isn't that much force needed to push the pin out.  Similarly, there really isn't that much force needed to mushroom over the rivet heads on the new master link.  How he managed to break the side plate I have no idea...

I think he broke the pin part - not the side plate.   He showed me the replacement part on-line, #35-0007.

So, they must be possible to break since it is a readily replaceable part.

mitt