The last time I went to a retail store the price of this chainbreaker was $19.99 but HF prices go up and down almost daily. I bought mine for $8.99 or 9.99 on a whim. I've seen it as high as $24.99 I try to only buy stuff HF when it is on sale. Then again I end up buying a lot of junk that I probably don't need just on the theory that it is on sale NOW and if/when I do need it it'll be expensive the day I go to get one. The HF I go to is about a 40-minute drive out into the burbs from my house with traffic and at least one toll on the "free"way so when I go I usually end up spending at least an hour searching for stuff that I might need or is on sale and rarely get out of there without spending at least $50 -usually closer to $75. So I guess that strategy works.

The chainbreaker I used for this conversion was bought and promptly lost in a pile of crap and was still in its original packaging as I had never even opened it up. I had been thinking of this conversion for a while now and was looking for the thing off and on for weeks if not months. I have a really nice professional motorcycle chain breaker (that also works well on cotters although it is a pita to set up as it comes in a plastic case and only fits inside the case when it is all disassembled) so I really didn't need to buy this although it WAS cheap. Now I have a dedicated cotter press that can be stored with my bike tools