Half link help!

i found this a few mins ago, looks like the pin in the half link is popping out, problems is i have no tools or a new link to fix and i need to get to work tonight for 10pm with a 30min ride from hackney, can anyone help in the next couple of hours.
sorry about the pic, camera phone is a bit shit

Does the pin go all the way through both plates of the half link ?

No tools at all? If you could scrounge pliers or mole grips you could squeeze it back in.
Failing that, find a house-brick and a rock; put the brick on the opposite side from the protruding link, then smack the sticky-out bit back with the rock.
Plan B: TAXI!

Plan B: TAXI!

Exactly right. Hit it with a Taxi, works every time.

No tools at all? If you could scrounge pliers or mole grips you could squeeze it back in.
Failing that, find a house-brick and a rock; put the brick on the opposite side from the protruding link, then smack the sticky-out bit back with the rock.

Almost certain to crush the link :(

@tynan - the pin is just short of coming through on the side you can see, the rest is sticking out the other side

@platini - tried squeezing with pliers but failed and no rocks in sight, new build you see...
about plan b, i finish at 4am and cabs will cost a fortune

@tynan - the pin is just short of coming through on the side you can see, the rest is sticking out the other side

Not enough clarity for me !

Does the pin go through both plates of the half-link ?

Does the pin go through both plates of the half-link ?

yes

yes

one second I feel a drawing coming on. . . .

Ok, which one looks like what is going on with your half link - looking from above, pins are orange, plates are blue - the camera in your photo would be looking from the bottom towards to the top in these illustrations.

if i knew how to use a bloody computer properly i would have done one for you from the start, would have much easier

you been working on this all afternoon Tynan

Thought of one other option !!

you are making this so much fun... E

you been working on this all afternoon Tynan

Yes since around one o'clock, I just knew this question would come up.

The prune told me from her well deserved grave. :)

did she tell you to 'phone home…'

you are making this so much fun... E

Right ! You need a chain tool ! :)

I genuinely can't think of an easy way to get the pin in without crushing the link - if you had a spare inner link you could perhaps put into the gap (X) to support the plates and stop them being bent/crushed - and gently try and tap the pin through with a hammer ?

Tynan, you are too helpful not to be a Northerner; or is that yet another myth exploded?

Tynan, you are too helpful not to be a Northerner; or is that yet another myth exploded?

Too strong a mix of double (ish) negative and non-sequitur to compute accurately.

tynan=repped

tynan=repped

See, secular empiricism imbued with reciprocal altruism really works. :P

See, secular empiricism imbued with reciprocal altruism really works. :P

tynan= -rep

seeing as no one has envited me over for tea, do you think this will stay from hackney to victoria and back tonight if i take it easy?

tynan= -rep

See, secular empiricism imbued with reciprocal altruism really works. :)

seeing as no one has envited me over for tea, do you think this will stay from hackney to victoria and back tonight if i take it easy?

Don't let BMMF see your 'envited' !

I don't think it will hold, even taking it easy :(