Breaking Drive Chain Method

Angle grinder to remove the rivets tops and a flat bladed screwdriver to lever the plate off

 

Diamond Tip dremel, Grinder, Chain Breaker, I have even seen hacksaw used for despair measure (this apparently took the guy forever and he was cheap)...

 

If you find the soft link you can file it flat in a couple of mins if you’ve no electric tools, then just push the link out, no need for chain splitter.

 

ANGLE GRINDER??? Wtf?? Hell no, don’t want any sparks flying around and destroying my paint... use a chainbreaker. Such as:

 

If you've sparks heading towards your paint you're doing it wrong

 

OldNick
Yes get a good set and do both jobs easily. Check your chain and you usually find a link that looks different. I/e it will have two indents in the link and that's the one to remove. Dremel maybe angle grinder asking for disaster.
Regards
Joe.

 

Even a cheap chain breaker will do the job without any grinding , if you find the soft link as Shaun mentioned, I done it recently on my O'ring 530 chain , on a 98 sprint , bought chain and breaker for £40 odd , from China ! Temporary chain as I'm mucking about with drive ratio !!

 

I just used a metal file to file the rivets down then the tool pictured above to push them out. Didn’t take long

 

good job...first time is always daunting...

but that goes the same for all the maintenance work...like changing your oil.

After you done it once, next time will be a walk in the park.

 

I tend to find the first time I do a job I am extra careful so it turns out OK, the second time I get over confident and that's when I have a disaster.