Why are Chain extractors so completely fookin shite!!!

[Longun]

I've got 3 including 2 Park Tool ones which are supposed to be good. Not one of them fits the chain properly for attaching links, and the ones Kane was trying to use at Creation didn't work either.   

[crazycraig]

asda 2 quid with 2 split links    there bang on 

[dct]

ive never invested in one of these - i just hacksaw the fookers and bend it with  a pair of plyers

danny silverstreak,s guide to bike maintenance at its best 

[MartyC]

A workman and his tools   

















 

[HEYWOOD BMX]

  I`ve blown up plenty,especially Topeak ones.Had no probs with Park though...

[bof]

I have had the same one in my toolbox for nearly 30 years bought it from bridge st bike shop in darwen for 99p and it works spot on 

[MartyC]

Well, I still have a chain extractor that I got well over 20 years ago (from when I worked at Heff's Longun  ) and have used it heaps of times on every bike I have owned since about 1984 and it still works fine for me  .

[Longun]

Well bring it round!!!!

[MartyC]

Well bring it round!!!!

Anytime in the next three weeks as after that I'll be down under 

[lazychubs]

ive got two one is well old like marty c's
and a aprk tool from alans
as all the others broke lol

[jT Racing]

the cheap shite one i've had for donkey's works fine. just learn how to use it and it's a link extractor, maybe that's where your going wrong, the whole chain sounds like a task

[Stodgy]

Yep, mine is 25 years old too. Still spot on. Even took apart links in a Shadow Conpiracy Half Link chain and put them back again - brilliant.

[Brandy Truffle]

bought a Halfords Bike Shack one for 8 quid as some numpty sold me a 'NOS' chrome Izumi...but forgot to tell me about the tiny slit in the 'sealed' bag where they'd half inched the master link! 

the Halfords link tool also has a feature to loosen stiff links as well...all in all spot on.