You know those Park Tool pliers for undoing magic links?
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:
then file a small hole in them (the pic is better than my words:
this sort of gives an overall idea, but the focus is all off:
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.