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Tomb:

--- Quote from: Trigger on April 23, 2018, 10:20:55 PM ---Drag racers used them years ago  ;)

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Drag racers use them now, we run in Funny Bike class doing 7.1 second quarters at 184mph. All the lads in FB use them, we use outrigger bearings and extended drive shafts/sprockets so have to use split links to change engines fast.

For road bikes I simply angle grind the rivet link to remove it, and two hammers, one of them a small ball pein to rivet the new soft links. For camchains I copied the local Yamaha dealers splitter/riveter.

matthewmosse:
Another vote for angle grinding the heads off and knocking pin through with a pin punch and 're riveting with a ball pein hammer from me, I prefer split links if available. Soft links and a hammer work just fine, just check the joint is not stiff and don't go over the top with hammering the soft link. I imagine it would be easy to overdo hammering one closed and either ruin the link or make it really stiff.

andy120t:
O hadn't of looking elsewhere for a splitlink., .just assumed when Wemoto said there wasn't one that I would have to use the other type. My preference is a split link so I'll try and match up one on ebay.....should have looked there to start with. Thanks all!

andy120t:
Thanks for all the replies. In the end I decided to just replace the chain with one with a split-link which I know I can fit myself. Feeble really, but it seemed the easiest route to go as I was slightly concerned about fitting the other typpe...so I was back on the road the next day!

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