A dismantled chain

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Thanks. Interesting. Would think it would wear your pockets though?

Do pay attention dear.

That will eat through your pockets in no time.

 

[Blue Hills]

Do pay attention dear.

See my edit before your post darius. Great minds, or those of feeble pockets, think alike.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Too slow.

 

[guitarpete247]

I think the OP has been reading the late great Sheldon Brown's
"The ShelBroCo Bicycle Chain Cleaning System"
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/chainclean.html

 

[CharleyFarley]

Why?

Because it was there, and I had a chain tool that seldom gets used. 😄

 

[CharleyFarley]

Is the rest of the bike in another bag?

Not yet but I have sawn a bike up into small pieces to dump it. A neighbor was giving it away, and I was stupid enough not to see that it was the cheapest piece of junk in existence, posing as a bike.

 

[CharleyFarley]

I think the OP has been reading the late great Sheldon Brown's
"The ShelBroCo Bicycle Chain Cleaning System"
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/chainclean.html

Sheldon was a great guy, and very much missed. I came across that article a while ago and, at first, started to take it seriously.

 

[CharleyFarley]

Did you assist the seller who I bought a 'complete' bike from recently?

It arrived in lots of pieces, totally dismantled

He didn't tell you it was in pieces? I do believe I would have been moderately irritated.

 

[CharleyFarley]

Not sure if the OP is serious.
But being boringly practical for a while, can anyone think of any uses for old chains, however much disassembled?
(a fair few uses for tubes of course)

I've wondered about it. I recycle stuff but unless the old chain it somehow bound up so it can't unfold, it would probably be a menace to recycling equipment if it got tangled up in a conveyor belt. I thought about using a piece to make a chain whip but I already have one. Maybe cut the chain in two and sell them to street thugs.

 

[CharleyFarley]

There is a piece missing

Actually, two! I late found two of the pins under my desk. Even so, the whole chain is not there in the picture. If you look closely, on the left you'll see two tiny black pieces of rings. Each pin, where it was swaged, had a tiny ring under it. They seem to be made of a very hard metal. As I punched each pin with the tool, the black ring ended up on the pushing rod. They built up and I had quite a job getting them off the tool.

 

[CharleyFarley]

Its the Sheldon Brown method

I did it before I found Sheldon's method. And I started to believe him as I read it. 😄

 

[DCLane]

He didn't tell you it was in pieces? I do believe I would have been moderately irritated.

He said he needed to dismantle it a bit to get it into a box. It just arrived in a lot more pieces than expected. However, as I've decided to re-paint the frame it saved a bit of time.

Personally I'd have preferred almost intact so I could get a test-ride in first.