The difficult to break chain on my Peugot mountain bike will eventually have to be removed for
cleaning. It was a bear. Needle nose pliers helped.
Does anybody make a pliers type tool that breaks a chain in two seconds flat? Not the kind that
shoots the pin out, at a cost of around a hundred dollars, but something that is made to break the
same chain at the same place with a special link many times easily.
I need _three_ chains on this bike. One drive, one rear wheel to electric motor, one left side
stoker's crank to electric motor. In version 1, the last two are in use alternately. In version two,
they'll be in use at the same time.
I like to keep my chains clean and have a front fender wtih OEM flap (a Planet Bike) and an
immersible screen washing can from Harbor Freight with lid. I use oil in the solvent can and when
the solvent evaporates, the chain is nearly dry. It works well. My cogs stay clean.
I'd like to try multiple vacuum cycles to "wash out" the spaces that actually do the work.
I can forge the tips of a pair of long nose pliers to do this job with a torch and small anvils. If
you try this yourself, don't heat them so hot they bend with pliers. They are "hot short" at that
temperature and are about as strong as cast iron, leaving work riddled with defects.
To read about my senior project at ODU, Go to Google Groups and enter dgoncz along with any or some
of these words: ultracapacitor electric bicycle motor generator fluorescent energy display