Originally Posted by
hairnet
You can't do the "old method" 8/9/10/11 speed chains and even some SS chains because the pins are mushroomed. Pushing a pin out will "ruin" the pin and trying to reconnect links supposedly damages the plates, so use the special connecting pin or a master link.
I don't understand why so many ssfg folks are so anti master link. I've had plenty of chain failures, only one was due to a master link, which I put on in a hurry and had pop off after two blocks (found all of it except for the clip... (Guessing I didn't pop it in all the way).