Single halflinks on normal chains

Final piece of advice when dealing with 1/8 chain is ideally to make sure you have a heavy duty breaking tool and read how to use it properly; you need to mess with two pins to remove a link but one needs to be left partially in place.
Yeah its a fricken ball ache - I've not managed to split my half link chain with my park tools splitter (it's the travel one, not the one with the big handle).