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10-29-13 | 05:52 AM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by jsdavis

Ok, maybe I'm doing something different, but I've always been able to pinch the two plates towards each other than then slide them apart by hand. But I've only used KMC version.

That's the way that I take the SRAM links apart when I don't have the pliers handy. I don't know how well it works with 10 speed chains since I only have one of those but the squeeze trick has worked on every link I've used up to 9 speed.

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