Hey Mike,
Check this thread I started a week or so ago, there is a photo of a wired clip... http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?t=153363
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Hey Mike,
Check this thread I started a week or so ago, there is a photo of a wired clip... http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?t=153363
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Here are a couple of pictures of safety wired chain links I found with google;
http://philip.hammfamily.org/motorcycle/025_23.JPG
http://www.funhog.w1.com/images/hawk/chainswire.JPG
I am not sure either of these is a better solution than have been posted, just alternative methods. Some had suggested using a sliver of a beer can wedged in between the side plate and the retaining clip. The sliver of metal supposedly kept tension on the clip keeping it in the pins groove. Others had used our favorite, JB weld, to seal it in position. Even Crazy glue was used by others.
I thought I had seen picture with a wire going through the chain pins and then twisted together. I just can't find it:-k, it may have been on this forum. Anyway, it looked like a better solution than having wire going around the side plate.
My money would be on a rivet or at least shot peening the pins.
http://philip.hammfamily.org/motorcycle/025_23.JPG
http://www.funhog.w1.com/images/hawk/chainswire.JPG
I am not sure either of these is a better solution than have been posted, just alternative methods. Some had suggested using a sliver of a beer can wedged in between the side plate and the retaining clip. The sliver of metal supposedly kept tension on the clip keeping it in the pins groove. Others had used our favorite, JB weld, to seal it in position. Even Crazy glue was used by others.
I thought I had seen picture with a wire going through the chain pins and then twisted together. I just can't find it:-k, it may have been on this forum. Anyway, it looked like a better solution than having wire going around the side plate.
My money would be on a rivet or at least shot peening the pins.
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25 street bikes, 6 dirtbikes all with the fish clip... no chains lost. The strongest was a turbo Yamaha 9 second drag bike. It was a shaft so it doesn't count...
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Thanks guys - I'm planning on using the old chain on my Big Red project for the short term, but the clip disintegrated from the master link when I removed it.
I was considering peening the pin heads over to secure the master, but I believe I'll safety-wire the link together first and determine if the chain is worth keeping - if so I'll peen it then...
Thanks again,
mike
