surprising_skoda
RMS Regular
Hi, has anyone got a chain riveter tool I could borrow? For a did 525vx chain with solid link.
Hesitant about paying £35 for a tool I'll use once only.
Hesitant about paying £35 for a tool I'll use once only.
of course you do, haven't the Balls to just clobber it with a hammer big lad. lolI've one in lisburn if you need it.
Ken you know I've quite the collection of tools. I don't use any of them! But I've got them!
I'm a long way past getting the pins out (or bending two chain tools doing that).
It's riveting the new link in. It's a hollow link on a DID 525VX chain and the DID specific tool is collapsing under the pressure, pressure which is required to compress the end over into a rivet head. It's a fault of poor quality, inherent in buying a cheap tool. Every tool, from £13 to £73, inc Sealey ones, are weak cast. The only one that mentions being hardened is the Draper Expert offering, but thats some 260 pounds. M&P don't even have one on offer, and they sell the DID chains by the bucketload. I'd forgotten why M&P annoy me so much. That's where the chain and sprocket set came from.
Getting close to the fabrication stage. All to peen over the heads of two tiny hollow tubes. Ridiculous.