Yet Another Cycling Forum
Random Musings => DIY => Skip Bike and Bodge It => Topic started by: mmmmartin on 02 May, 2017, 10:27:57 pm
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You know those Park Tool pliers for undoing magic links? http://www.wiggle.co.uk/park-tool-master-link-pliers/ (http://www.wiggle.co.uk/park-tool-master-link-pliers/) that cost more than a tenner? Well here's a way of doing it for a few quid:
- buy some tiny pliers, dead cheap.
- file them so they are very narrow and fit through a chain, then file a small round hole in them
First, file them so they become really narrow:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4180/34254856922_98b3eb2a87.jpg)
then file a small hole in them (the pic is better than my words:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4159/33572184864_fc2abaebcb.jpg)
this sort of gives an overall idea, but the focus is all off:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4185/34254870152_bfdd8eecfd.jpg)
Now, I'd be the first to say I nicked this idea from somewhere, probably this forum, but can't find the original. Suffice it to say the original poster did a far better job than I have done.
I already own the Park Tool version, but thought this would be a useful addition to a toolkit for touring as it can be a pair of normal pliers as well as a magic link widget.
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Excellent.
If you have access to a bench grinder that's a far quicker way to thin the jaws and cut the slots (and I would have made the slots a little nearer the tips of the jaws)
That said ... I bought a Super B quick link tool that not only opens the links but closes them too - this https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51DnNbSzQiL._SY606_.jpg (I got mine at cost price)
Rob