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Paging all SRAM chain users!, please help me!!! (10 posts)
|  Paging all SRAM chain users!, please help me!!! | francisco
Aug 14, 2003 2:54 PM | | Hi
I was replacing my chain, after a ride this morning. I just replaced a shimano xtr, with a new SRAM pc-59, I installed the chain, but after the chain was spinning I realized that I didn´t used the powerlink to connect it, I just cutted the chain for the recommended lenght, and then put it back together using my chain tool.
So, it´s safe to run the chain that way or it´s possible that it breaks under my feet?. Now I have no way to tell where is the link that I use to connect the chain, or should I wait till it breaks, an then use the powerlink?
I don´t care to wash my chain attached to the bike, instead of using the powerlink to clean it better. =(
Please help!
thanks a lot!
bye |
| relax | cw
Aug 14, 2003 3:12 PM | | It won't break. It'll work fine just like any other chain. When you want to remove it for cleaning, you can install the powerlink then. |
| no worries | FM or MF
Aug 14, 2003 3:13 PM | | I've used sram chains for years and never used the powerlink. It's as strong or stronger without it.
don't sweat washing your bike with the chain on, just rub the excess water off and lube the chain right after washing. |
| re: Paging all SRAM chain users!, please help me!!! | Bikeless Rider
Aug 14, 2003 5:13 PM | | SRAM makes about the best chain out there. If anyone is smart enough to make a chain that can have ANY links replaced (in case of damage) they can.And we're really talking about Sachs, who have been doing it right for years. Chains can twist and break when they jam, if you couldn't replace any link (for this reason I always carry a spare pair of links) you'd be stuck for lack of proper design on one cheap part. Also, carrying a chaintool or multitool that has one built in isn't always enough. Make sure it's one that can handle the type of pressing your chain has been assembled with. There's center punch, square, and circle. Each looking like the description implies, and ascending in fastening strength. If you try to "break" a circle punched chain pin with a cheap chaintool, you may strip it's threads. Good chaintools have a long threaded area, tough hardened steel, and tapered pins. For this reason I don't buy expensive chains, but rather replace them often(1/16" stretch per foot). A PC69 works just fine and handles weather pretty well. |
| scram 59 sucks got one new and | Brown Teeth
Aug 14, 2003 8:20 PM | | out of the bag it had:
A) dirty with 3 stuck links
B) one of the stuck link I could not unstick after even backing out the pin
C) spent an hour on making it work and it never did
D) rollers were not smooth like nobody was watching what was being manufactured (I can post detail pictures but why bother SCRAM is just another word for crap, they should move production to somalia QC can't get worse)
SOLUTION: Purchased a couple wipperman 908's at 20$ and they work like greased lightning out of the bag and now over 500 miles and still like new.
IMHO SCRAM has no QC so best avoid those clowns, plus their link really needs plyers to work, connectx is a way better link w/o using tools unless you have a lot of chain slap, have fun! |
| The one you got may have sucked, but ... | Spain
Aug 14, 2003 9:39 PM | | overall Sram makes a quality product (I use the PC69). Sorry to hear you got stuck with one that was loused up, but they're certainly not all that way. I'm certain that there are plenty of people here who use Sram chains and are pleased with them. Also, to say that you have to use pliers to properly fit the power-link is ridiculous and just plain wrong. You didn't use a hammer to get the damn thing on as well did you? Perhaps your chain installation tool selection has something to do with the problems you had. Me? I try to keep it simple ... hands only. To each his/her own. |
| I use PC69s | pimpbot
Aug 14, 2003 9:57 PM | | and have never had an issue. Great chains, durable, good shifting and easy to clean. Purdy too!
Powerlink is the easiest thing to pop apart when you want to, and stays put when you don't. You just have not learn't the 'trick.' I can get mine apart on the trail in about 2 seconds without tools. The thing is rediculously great. I'm surprised Shimano doesn't license it from them, but Shimano suffers from 'Not Invented Here' syndrome.
I've broken just about everything Shimano makes chainwise, and I have not broken a SRAM, although I may get a whipperman next time just to check them out. |
| I use PC69s | Bikeless Rider
Aug 15, 2003 2:20 PM | | Good points, people don't take the time to figure out the powerlink connector. I find pinching the link plates laterally, while pushing the ends of the link in (rather the pulling apart) helps free the thing. Sachs/Sram could be putting better instructions on them. AS far as I know they're still made by Sachs. I don't know where though. |
| always trys to bite me on | Brown Teeth
Aug 15, 2003 6:30 PM | | the reconnect, the conectX is so simple makes the scram/sacks link best for the leatherman, opposite corners and it falls apart use fingers and have fun. Might get a pc69 if I can get one at <$16 but more fun to ride the whipp then 69 the wife ;) |
| Thank you all!. I´ll ride it, and see how it goes... | francisco
Aug 15, 2003 5:10 AM | | |
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