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Break Chain and Remove Excess Links

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How to repair a broken chain

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Acquire a chain breaker tool and a new master link (ensure it matches the chain size, e.g., #60 chain requires a #60 master link). Position the chain breaker tool on the chain at the point where you intend to remove links. Turn the handle of the tool to push out one of the pins from the chain link. Once the pin is pushed through, the chain will be separated. Remove the desired number of links; the presenter removes two links to account for the excessive slack. Use pliers or a similar tool to bend off any remaining part of the removed links that might still be attached.

Goal: Use a chain breaker tool to carefully push out a pin from the chain, thereby breaking it, and then remove the necessary number of excess links to restore proper length.

Tools and materials

  • Chain Breaker Tool
  • Master Link
  • Pliers

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spring-loaded part right there now this is a chain break tool and the chain break tool is basically a grabber which grabs onto the chain and you twist this right here and it pushes its way and breaks the chain free this right here is a master link and this is a number 60 master link this chain is a number 60 if you read oh drop the piece if you read on your master link it'll say 60 right there I don't know if you can see that or not the Sun is kind of glaring on me we got to get busy we got to get this done I'm set this link right over here we're gonna break the chain what we need to think about what the chain is we need to break it on one of these points in other words if I'm going to take two links out I need to take this link in this link so that I'll have that left over okay so I'm gonna go right up here I'm gonna push this guy right through there back him off a little bit we'll take our chain tool we'll go right on there get a bite like so yeah not quite I'm gonna back off on our chain tool just a little bit there we go give us a bite on that number 60 there we go hold them in place it'll kind of be floppy for a minute until you get a hold of where you need to be tighten this guy down this is a chain break tool all right so now I'll just keep twisting until it pops through and you'll feel it kind of pop through kind of give a little bit here in a second it's just gonna kind of give out I guess there we go I heard it pop felt it pop in my hand okay we've tighten it all the way down tight as it would go not gorilla tight but fairly tight now we're gonna take our chain break tool off just like so and you can see down in here I've popped the little rivet through there okay now the next step is getting this off best way to get it off I've seen is just taking either a pair of pliers if you have it or if you don't just bend it and break it off just gonna kind of give her a bend a little more bent there we go we're throwing this away anyway and that's your removed piece of chain you can see basically just bent that off and removed it alright so now I've got to

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