Well today I learned...

[theenglishman]

...not to push the chain pin all the way out - cos getting it started again is a bugger. That or a buy a better chain pin remover.

Anyone else learned a bit of spannering know how today?

[cycle cat]

No you can't get the pin back in once it's out.
I've learned to lubricate clipless pedals.
I couldn't get my feet out in time and fell over sideways onto a bank.

[Mick F]

Not today ................ yet!
However, I did learn some time back, that when undoing something with a tool, put it down before taking off the fitment by hand.

If you leave the tool in the same hand as you are taking off the "something", you are likely to drop the tool onto your nice paintwork!

[Yael]

...not to push the chain pin all the way out - cos getting it started again is a bugger. That or a buy a better chain pin remover.

Anyone else learned a bit of spannering know how today?

Step 1 Go to your LBS, buy a quicklink and fit it
Step 2 Stop sneering at other people who pay someone to do a better job than they would've done
Step 3 Bad karma should wear off by lunchtime tomorrow

[theenglishman]

...not to push the chain pin all the way out - cos getting it started again is a bugger. That or a buy a better chain pin remover.

Anyone else learned a bit of spannering know how today?

Step 1 Go to your LBS, buy a quicklink and fit it
Step 2 Stop sneering at other people who pay someone to do a better job than they would've done
Step 3 Bad karma should wear off by lunchtime tomorrow

Well that told me then

And yes, you can put the pin in again! And now I've learned what a quicklink is too. Good stuff this interweb thing!

[eileithyia]

...not to push the chain pin all the way out - cos getting it started again is a bugger. That or a buy a better chain pin remover.

Anyone else learned a bit of spannering know how today?

Step 1 Go to your LBS, buy a quicklink and fit it
Step 2 Stop sneering at other people who pay someone to do a better job than they would've done
Step 3 Bad karma should wear off by lunchtime tomorrow

Well that told me then

And yes, you can put the pin in again! And now I've learned what a quicklink is too. Good stuff this interweb thing!

Agree you can.. but it is such a fiddly operation it is preferable not to have to do it... and quality of link remover is nothing to do with is.

[jezer]

Why don't chain splitters have some sort of stop on them to prevent the pin dropping out

[Ugly]

When I bought a cyclo chain tool in the mid 60s the instructions gave the number of turns, for both 1/8 and 3/32 chains, to remove the rivit just far enough to split the chain without removing the rivit completely. Still got the chain tool, replaced the pin a few times, instructions long gone just do it by feel now.