Circlip hassle
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Darius_Jedburgh
Veteran
Buy some circlip pliers. Always useful.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
As a maintenance engineer, tbf I have several pairs of circles pliers ....but there are no easy ways without them IME.
There will be ways, a steel scribe perhaps, something strong , if you can lift one side and get something under the circlip and work your way round...its possible, but not easy.
Then you have to get it back in.
Also depends on the quality or springiness of the circlip....some are swines WITH the proper tools.
There will be ways, a steel scribe perhaps, something strong , if you can lift one side and get something under the circlip and work your way round...its possible, but not easy.
Then you have to get it back in.
Also depends on the quality or springiness of the circlip....some are swines WITH the proper tools.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Actually, looking closely at the photo, you can see there is a gap between the circlip and the body, just behind the end parts. A small screwdriver in there, lever it away from the body, wedge with another screwdriver and work around the circumference. Do-able perhaps.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Arrows show the gaps...
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Mug a schoolboy coming home from school and raid his maths set for some dividers 
Darius_Jedburgh
Veteran
Or better still these allow internal and external with removal and replacing facility.
https://www.toolstation.com/combina...MVU8IFwtdMJvy-SUf9BSOI5_G2twOZsAaApgpEALw_wcB
https://www.toolstation.com/combina...MVU8IFwtdMJvy-SUf9BSOI5_G2twOZsAaApgpEALw_wcB
bikingdad90
Guru
Would a quick release chain link tool do the trick?
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
Money well spent even supposing you only use them once!
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Milzy
Guru
I tried that. Looked in a kitchen drawer and found a Rocktrail lock knife. It popped it out amazingly after many screw drivers failed.
Hub finally finished after putting the job off for weeks.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I bought a set of four on ebay for about eight quid. Screwfix do a kit with four different jaws for under a fiver. It's far better than faffing about with small screwdrivers etc , and then watching the clip flying off through the air to somewhere where you can't find it.
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
They are really cheap. You need tiny ones to overhaul Dura-Ace pedals, which use a circlip to retain the inboard ball race. I think l paid about £4 for a set of four mini-circlip pliers and they are perfect.