>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> --On Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:32 AM -0400 John Laurenson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If you hit the link that hard to peen it, you will probably locked
>> up the link.  It only takes a few light taps to lock the link in
>> place.  A few light taps doesn't bother the sprocket at all. If you
>> beat the hell out of it the link to flatten the head, the chain
>> will kink as it rotates on the sprocket and beating it will damage
>> the sprocket.  That isn't necessary , it only takes a very slight
>> flattening of the tip to lock the master link on the chain.  If you
>> question that, try it and then try to remove the link after a few
>> light taps.  It takes a grinder to get the link apart once the head
>> is even slightly peened.

> Our you can use a riveter and be done with it.

> :-)

> Mike "Right tool for the job" Weaver

Why hit, when you can press fit?

Sorry I'll shutoff the rhyming traffic generator.

Jerry Wills

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