Originally Posted by
brianp
my question for you on the CT-2, is have you gotten it adjusted to pop pins all the way out on newer chains? i love it when you just want to take an older chain off for cleaning, but even dialed all the way down it still doesn't seem push the pins all the way through on a new SRAM 8 spd chain for me. hence my choice of CT-3 as main tool for removing links, and/or extending chains for Xtracycle conversion.
Why do you want to push the pin all the way out? If you're going to put the chain back together, it is 1000 times easier if a short end of the pin is inside the plates to put it back together with.