Thanks John. And good timing. I was just trying to figure out if a DID brand chain breaker/riveter is really needed for a DID 525 chain. DID seems very particular, a little contradictory, and generally confusing on their site: D.I.D. Racing Chains and DirtStar® Rims
Reading reviews and forums around the web has given me the impression that other chain tools generally work fine with any brand of chain but there are quite a few cases where all manner of chain tools break on first or second use.
What's your impression on this? I would hate to unnecessarily turn away a traveller with a perfectly good Motion Pro chain tool...
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Originally Posted by John Downs
Hi Jeff,
Hopefully you will find a traveler with a 525 chain tool. Failing that you will have to resort to third world caveman technique.
When I needed to remove a link from a stretched chain on a rental bike in Costa Rice, this consisted of stopping at a roadside transmission repair shop where the owner Señor Pollo cut the chain off with a metal blade in an angle grinder, carefully ground the heads of chain rivet, used a hollow transmission input shaft against one side of the chain while he used a ground down pin punch to drive the pins out of the chain, remove a link, reassemble on the bike and had me hold a block of steel on one side of the chain while he carefully peened over the pin.
I'm not saying you should do this, more as information for someone slightly more desperate who may read this.
525 DID chains and tools can be rare as hen's teeth in the third world. More likely in Tashkent than a village in the mountains though.
I should think that a large C-clamp could be modified to work as a pin press in a pinch.
Others may have ideas.
Best luck.
Kindest regards,
John Downs
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