• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Darn it all, why me? Master link ?'s

thehusk

thehusk

Husqvarna
A Class
So....as I was putting my chain together, I heard a "ping" and the master link clip was no where to be found. :excuseme: So I'm needing just a clip. Didn't know if this was something you had available or where I can get a small pkg of these clips. Also I'm wanting to get an axtra master link. Is it a good idea to keep master link and chain same same as far as brand or does any old 520 master link work fine?

Some of the hard core riders I know pull thier chain after every two or even every race. If you have to replace the clip each time, then your going through ump teen (exagerated) clips through a season/year. Or do you replace the entire master link? Which doesn't make sence to me why you would do that. So... clips, where to get them?
 
I've never heard of buying just a clip. Don't think you'll find that anywhere.
It's not a bad idea to keep a couple of spare masters (complete) around.
I even carry one in my tool belt.
I have mixed master and chain brand for a long time...although it is not recommended. Never had a chain break either. But have thrown a chain while going through some very thick brush.
Another little trick I've been doing forever is this.

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HuskyDude;90898 said:
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I never thought of doing that. :cheers:

My worry about fitting "any old clip" to a link is that one that doesn't belong to that particular make and model of chain might want to jump off. I guess it's best to use a masterlink from the same brand as the chain too.

Modern links with the press-fit sideplate make splitting a chain a bit of a pita (especially as at least one o-ring seems to go walkabout too). I usually don't bother - I take it as a reminder to pull the swingarm + linkage and give the bearings a grease. I clean my chain in situ, but racers who'll be using non o-ring chains will need to give ther chains more maintenance, which is probably why they may split and remove them so often.

I always knew there was an advantage to being old and slow.:lol:
 
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