For may years I have occasionally given my Sedis Sport Ultra chain a good clean which involved removing the chain. I've always done this successfully with my Cyclo(?) rivet punch; the rivets don't have a raised head and I can do the job fairly easily.
As my good 1980s road bike is hanging up inside for the winter, I bought a 1983 Raleigh Shopper for local journeys and have removed the chain. I couldn't find the circlip type thing that my old schoolboy bike had to connect two rivets, so I punched a rivet out with the Cyclo tool. The rivets all had a head that was raised and looked like it had been peined down. I manged to clean up the filthy oily chain and pushed the rivet back in with the tool but I'm wondering if this is the normal way of splitting such an old chain with rivets like that ?
I think the chain is the original 1/8th inch one on the Shopper.
As my good 1980s road bike is hanging up inside for the winter, I bought a 1983 Raleigh Shopper for local journeys and have removed the chain. I couldn't find the circlip type thing that my old schoolboy bike had to connect two rivets, so I punched a rivet out with the Cyclo tool. The rivets all had a head that was raised and looked like it had been peined down. I manged to clean up the filthy oily chain and pushed the rivet back in with the tool but I'm wondering if this is the normal way of splitting such an old chain with rivets like that ?
I think the chain is the original 1/8th inch one on the Shopper.