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I managed to snap a Jobsworth chain whip the other day. Then I repaired it with a quick link, which also snapped. The guilty party is a stiff-as-fuck lockring on a Shimano 105 cassette. I suspect my LBS overtightened it.
The snappage occurred as I had pry bars on both the chainwhip and lockring remover and was pressing down to undo. I'm pretty sure he lockring isn't seized because I managed to get it to budge clockwise a tiny bit without a pry bar. This is after spunking a load of WD-40 all up in it.
Is my solution to get a giant fuck-off chainwhip like the Park SR 2.2 do you reckon? While that's big and will give lots of leverage, will the chain links be any stronger?