Originally Posted by
JonathanGennick
Years ago the first KMC links I bought snapped and locked into place, and you needed pliers to remove them. Not sure whether any are still made that way.
I was browsing through KMC's website once and noted they have used at least 3 different master link designs. The one they call "MissingLink" is on all the chains I've bought recently and is identical to the Superlink & SRAM Powerlink.