How do I join a new Hyperglide chain ?

Tran Tran said:

The chain is a HG-93, and will drive a 9-speed HG
cassette. After shortening the chain by one link, I joined
the two ends by using the pin that was already on the
chain. Should I have driven it out and used the reinforced
connecting pin instead ?

Yes. You can break a chain anywhere except a black pin
[1], but you must re-join it with one of the special
pins. If you don't, the standard pins can work loose if
re-used: the action of taking them out widens the hole in
the chain plates.

I'd like to say "buy a SRAM chain and forget all the HG
nonsense" but personally I've only been able to get Shimano
chains running smoothly on 9-speed. On 7 and 8 speed there
is little point in keeping the Shimano chain with its
joining foibles.

[1] Dura-Ace joining pins are silver, but they still look
different to the standard pins.

tran-<< The chain is a HG-93, and will drive a 9-speed HG
cassette. After shortening the chain by one link, I joined
the two ends by using the pin that was already on the chain.
Should I have driven it out and used the reinforced
connecting pin instead ? >><BR><BR>

Yes, use the supplied link. The pins are not hard enough to
be driven partly out and then back in. If this makes your
chain too short, use a Sram gold snaplink.

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Should I have driven it out and used the

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reinforced connecting pin instead ?

Yes. You can break a chain anywhere except a black pin
[1], but you must re-join it with one of the special
pins. If you don't, the standard pins can work loose if
re-used: the action of taking them out widens the hole in
the chain plates.

And you better take that seriously. I learned the hard way,
that you cann't reuse the old pin. The chain seemed to be
working well for a few days till one day I pulled real hard
over a steep but short hill. That cost me scraches all over
myself and my bike, a new derailleur and a hadfull of spokes
in the backwheel. So don't risk breaking a chain. Ivar

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tran-<< The chain is a HG-93, and will drive a 9-speed HG
cassette. After shortening the chain by one link, I joined
the two ends by using the pin that was already on the
chain. Should I have driven it out and used the reinforced
connecting pin instead ? >><BR><BR>

Yes, use the supplied link. The pins are not hard enough
to be driven

partly

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out and then back in. If this makes your chain too short,
use a Sram gold snaplink.

What's the pin for that already comes partially in the
chain? The one that the OP is talking about?

Greg

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Should I have driven it out and used the

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reinforced connecting pin instead ?

Yes. You can break a chain anywhere except a black pin
[1], but you must re-join it with one of the special
pins. If you don't, the standard pins can work loose if
re-used: the action of taking them out widens the hole
in the chain plates.

And you better take that seriously. I learned the hard
way, that you

cann't

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reuse the old pin.

I believe he's talking about a new chain.

Greg

Zog The Undeniable said:

I'd like to say "buy a SRAM chain and forget all the HG
nonsense" but personally I've only been able to get Shimano
chains running smoothly on 9-speed.

Of course, you could just buy the sram link and put it on
the Shimano chain.

I'm using a Wipperman chain and it runs/shifts very nicely.
--
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tran-<< The chain is a HG-93, and will drive a 9-speed
HG cassette.

After

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shortening the chain by one link, I joined the two ends
by using the pin that was already on the chain. Should I
have driven it out and used the reinforced connecting
pin instead ? >><BR><BR>

Yes, use the supplied link. The pins are not hard enough
to be driven

partly

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out and then back in. If this makes your chain too
short, use a Sram

gold

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snaplink.

What's the pin for that already comes partially in the
chain? The one

that

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the OP is talking about?

Greg

Sorry, I should have been clearer. I removed one link from a
new, never before joined chain. The pin that I used to close
the chain is that Greg is refering to and seems to be the
black pin that Shimano refers to as the "end pin". I suppose
that it must be OK to use that pin to join the chain for the
first time.