Thanks y'all for the advice about the chain pliers. Those would be helpful. I had to do some checking to answer some of the poster's questions. The chain with the problem was a SRAM PC-830, an 8-speed. Normally, I don't have too much of a problem getting these links to come apart, usually with a bit of penetrating oil to loosen things up. But over the years I have noticed that the longer these chain links are left unserviced, the more difficult it is to get them to separate. The one I was working with yesterday was on my general purpose utility bike and it had not been removed or cleaned for quite a number of years. The bike is set up as a single speed which is why I installed the 8-speed chain on it. The chain being used on my 9-speed comes apart relatively easy, but then I remove, clean, and re-lubricate it much more frequently.
On Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 8:50:43 AM UTC-5, eddietheflay wrote: > > make sure if your moving to 11 speed chain that you get the latest version > of the Park tool. Old version works great for removing link but does not > work for installing link. For installing it is nearly impossible (for me) > to pull the two ends apart to get the link to click into place. Newest tool > has extra indents on the outside of the jaws that makes it a "snap" to pull > both handles outward and snap the link into place. > > On Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 2:37:58 PM UTC-7, George Schick wrote: >> >> This afternoon I struggled to get a easy-link (or whatever SRAM calls it) >> to "release" so I could clean the chain on one of my bikes. Granted, this >> chain has been in use for quite a few years before I got around to removing >> and cleaning it, but sheesh you'd think it would still come apart >> relatively easily. Nope, I tried dosing it with TriFlow, then with Liquid >> Wrench, and finally with good old reliable PB Blaster, but none of them >> loosened it up enough to allow the easy link to be squeezed together to the >> point where it would come apart. I wound up resorting to the use of a >> chain tool to forcefully get it apart. Anyone have any recommendations of >> either a solvent or a tool that will aid in the removal of these so-called >> easy links? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c0180aae-0474-4c42-93e4-a6fb1b376f2e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
