Recommended chain rivetter

[andy120t]

Hi, does anyone know / use a chain riveter they can recommend?.....at a reasonable price. So certainly sub £50.

Initially it's for the drive chain on a Kawasaki Zx6, so a fairly beefy chain. But I also want something that will last forever and for all bikes.

Wemoto tell me that they don't do a split link anymore which is a real pain.

Also, any other ways that you've all used to fit chain rivets would be interesting to hear.
Thanks!

[Trigger]

They all break in the end, maybe it will last 10 times or 100.
Whale CBT480R pro is a very good make but, a rivet tool for 520,525, 530 and 532 comes in around £116 plus. You still will break the pins but, at least you can get spares for a Whale.
You pay for what you get and at over £100 you will have to do a lot of chains. I have had cheaper ones that you can pick up for under £20 that have lasted 10 rivets and I have had a Oxford one £50 that only lasted 17 rivets.

[Green1]

I buy cheap and either break the pins after a couple of chains or lose the tool forever.
I'm the same with impact drivers I'm beginning to think someone keeps helping there selves to tools in my garage as stuff just disappears.

[Trigger]

Just had a look in my trade book and it is listing a ZX6 as a 520 which you can still get a spilt link for. Different ZX6 have different size chains so, it depends on what model yours is ?

[Green1]

Would you trust a split link in a bike that big?
Saying that I did buy a bike and ride it 2 hours home to find the link wasn't clipped together properly.

[Trigger]

Would you trust a split link in a bike that big?
Saying that I did buy a bike and ride it 2 hours home to find the link wasn't clipped together properly.

Drag racers used them years ago 

[K2-K6]

The loading (shear plane) of the plates is the same,  it's just if they are held in place by a fish plate or peened ends of rivets. If chain is big enough for the loading it shouldn't matter.

I usually set them and peen with a hammer by hand for the soft link type.

[Trigger]

One that bugs me is, they recon that a X ring chain is better than a O ring chain so, why is it that the king link on a X ring chain come with O rings to be fitted and not X rings ?

[Green1]

Makes sense chain brakeage is the least of my worries with my Pegaso as there known to spit the front sprocket off the shaft as there only held on with a circlip

I have always used the tool to peen them and never had any issues

Never noticed that with X & O ring chains

[UK Pete]

Cheap ones  are shite the metals way too soft

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[Tomb]

Drag racers used them years ago 

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!