Chain Breaking Tools - Which are your preffered choices?

The bane of my life, by far: The chain rivet tool. Every. Single. One now, as of tonight, that I've ever used in my life has broken. Be it folding chain guide teeth, handles coming apart, threads stripping themselves, to the constant peening anvil snapping, to the whole tool body sheering in two, on one occasion with those shitty, cheap 'quick fix' Bell ones from Asda. Frankly, how they get away with charging money for such lack of quality is astonishing...

Even the 2 pricier Park Tools I've had (3.2, 4.3) have also broken, again the anvil just breaking clean off both. For what can be quite an expensive tool, most seem so poorly made, which leads me to the question - Which chain tools do you have good experiences with and that you prefer?

Feel free to add negatives and bad brands as well, please.

There's an old proverb about which kind of workman blames the tools.

Just sayin.

A chain can be removed much more easily with a nice big bolt cutter.

@chainbreaker is my favourite tool

Lol

Your a tool

use mine regularly for the last 3 years. the cheapest one on ebay, asda quality.

one tooth broken recently.

as said, it's probably not the tool at fault.

Soooo, you wind the anvil up to the rivet, all nicely aligned, you slowly turn the handle, and the thing snaps off and flies past your head at the first hint of pressure...magic?

Just um...just wondering where I'm at fault there, like.

You didn't pray first.

Use this at home, never had any issues. Got the chain-breaker half of an Alien tool for the road but have only needed to use it twice.

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youre going to have to put a fair bit of pressure on anything if the tool is going to give before the rivet, good clue to backing it off and seeing whats stopping it. the only time it happens like that for me is when the chain is not properly aligned.

forcing anything mechanical usually will end in fucking it up.

if its aligned right then the next thing i would hazard a guess at would be the chain, unless youre using different chains each time you can rule that out.

bump - need a portable chain tool. What's good? Needs to fit in a jersey pocket (and ideally not too heavy)

Not used this one, but if its anything like the brute it should be great
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/park-tool-folding-chain-tool-with-peening-anvil/

Park tool mini chain brute for mine and at a tenner...

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/park-tool-chain-brute-chain-tool/

£50 but really is excellent:

https://www.evanscycles.com/birzman-dragonfly-chain-tool-EV189300

recently went from using the PT mini brute to the KMC chain tool de riveter, both good but the KMC would def be my preferred choice

I really rate this. Have been using it for years and it's been utterly reliable, way better than many more expensive tools.

BTWIN. £5 and its lasted over 5 years of breaking a chain once a year.

wiggle.co.uk/park-tool-foldin­g-chain-tool-with-peening-anvil/

Will you be peening rivets? If not* then the Chain Brute is surely lighter, cheaper and more reliable design.

*I never peen rivets so a chain tool with rivet peening facility does not float my boat at all. I only ever use a chain tool to split chain and split links to rejoin it.

Looks more compact than the brute? And personally I find the handle on the brute to be annoying to grip. But yeah, brute is always a good option

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srsly wtf?

Lol

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