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Title: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: Longun on May 13, 2008, 09:23 PM
I've got 3 including 2 Park Tool ones which are supposed to be good. Not one of them fits the chain properly for attaching links, and the ones Kane was trying to use at Creation didn't work either.    :knuppel2: :knuppel2:
Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: crazycraig on May 13, 2008, 09:28 PM
asda 2 quid with 2 split links  :daumenhoch:  there bang on  :)
Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: dct on May 13, 2008, 09:30 PM
ive never invested in one of these - i just hacksaw the fookers and bend it with  a pair of plyers

danny silverstreak,s guide to bike maintenance at its best  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: MartyC on May 13, 2008, 09:32 PM
A workman and his tools  ::)  :-X

















 :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on May 13, 2008, 09:41 PM
 :) I`ve blown up plenty,especially Topeak ones.Had no probs with Park though...
Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: bof on May 13, 2008, 09:48 PM
I have had the same one in my toolbox for nearly 30 years bought it from bridge st bike shop in darwen for 99p and it works spot on  :D
Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: MartyC on May 13, 2008, 09:51 PM
Well, I still have a chain extractor that I got well over 20 years ago (from when I worked at Heff's Longun  ;) ) and have used it heaps of times on every bike I have owned since about 1984 and it still works fine for me  :).
Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: Longun on May 13, 2008, 11:19 PM
Well bring it round!!!!
Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: MartyC on May 13, 2008, 11:42 PM
Well bring it round!!!!

Anytime in the next three weeks as after that I'll be down under  :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: lazychubs on May 15, 2008, 05:49 PM
ive got two one is well old like marty c's
and a aprk tool from alans
as all the others broke lol
Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: jT Racing on May 15, 2008, 11:31 PM
the cheap shite one i've had for donkey's works fine. just learn how to use it ;) and it's a link extractor, maybe that's where your going wrong, the whole chain sounds like a task :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: Stodgy on May 16, 2008, 09:22 AM
Yep, mine is 25 years old too. Still spot on. Even took apart links in a Shadow Conpiracy Half Link chain and put them back again - brilliant.
Title: Re: Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!
Post by: Brandy Truffle on May 17, 2008, 06:21 PM
bought a Halfords Bike Shack one for 8 quid as some numpty sold me a 'NOS' chrome Izumi...but forgot to tell me about the tiny slit in the 'sealed' bag where they'd half inched the master link!  >:(

the Halfords link tool also has a feature to loosen stiff links as well...all in all spot on.  :daumenhoch:
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