Originally Posted by
digibud
10 spd chains are fundamentally different than, say, 8 speed and even 9 speed. with 10speed you can't pop out a rivet half way and then push it back in. You can't reuse the rivets at all and you have to be much more precise....it may not be a bad chain.
With Shimano,you have to use a new pin every time. With SRAM,you can rejoin the chain,even 10spd,as long as you don't push the pin completely out.