Picco Micro Mini Breaking Chain to Spin

[stevieb]

I have recently been buying 100' reels of chain to spin my self and sell on to other tree dwellers. Every thing is going fine until I try to break the mini micro. It does not matter how I angle the link in the die or put the minimum amount of pressure on the breaker to push the link through I always seem to but a very very light bend in the link. You could hardy see the bend but its there and makes spinning a link impossible. Does anyone have any tips? or what do you do?

 

[sILlogger]

are u trying to break the chain on the cutter tooth? this can be a real PITA, and will often cause link bendage, ive found that it works better if u break the drive link next to the cutter, just what works for me

 

[Grande Dog]

Instead of pushing the rivet with one punch, go back an forth between the two rivets and punch them a little at a time.

 

[stevieb]

are u trying to break the chain on the cutter tooth? this can be a real PITA, and will often cause link bendage, ive found that it works better if u break the drive link next to the cutter, just what works for me

No im breaking it as it should be on the link or strap. it just seems to much force is going into to thin a pcs of metal. If no one else has this problem it must be me but I cant see how. Tried reversing the link but to no effect. I get as much metal overlapping as I can to form a good bridge.

 

[sILlogger]

alright just checking, when i first started with that i was doing it wrong

 

[stevieb]

alright just checking, when i first started with that i was doing it wrong

I will give the alternating links a try see if that works. I do break into the actual tooth when the chain is an odd number. Have found that its best to grind those off now as it does tend to bend the remaining link...

 

[sILlogger]

whenever breaking on the cutter link go one rivet past the one u need to break and break it, and then come back and break the one at the desired link, helps with the bending

 

[stevieb]

whenever breaking on the cutter link go one rivet past the one u need to break and break it, and then come back and break the one at the desired link, helps with the bending

Far to tight fisted for that

 

[sILlogger]

ha ha, alright

 

[Crofter]

Take the die grinder and remove most or all of the rivet head. It takes a fraction of the force then to pop the rivet. Alternating from one rivet to the other of the pair helps too. Is the anvil opening proper for that chain? The tie strap should be a very tight fit in the slot so the force is taken in close by the well supported drive link.

 

[Fish]

I agree, I seldom use a punch anymore, but use a bench grinder and
grind off the heads, and wiggle. The side straps are so thin anymore.........

 

[stihltech]

blame

It's all Paris Hilton's fault.:help:

 

[Al Smith]

I agree, I seldom use a punch anymore, but use a bench grinder and
grind off the heads, and wiggle. The side straps are so thin anymore.........

I don't even own a chain breaker.I grind them and pop them off with a screw driver.I do own a spinner but I've peened a lot of them together before I had one.

 

[stevieb]

I don't even own a chain breaker.I grind them and pop them off with a screw driver.I do own a spinner but I've peened a lot of them together before I had one.

Im going to give a go at grinding one today. It just looks to fragile for it. But I will see how it goes.

 

[Al Smith]

Im going to give a go at grinding one today. It just looks to fragile for it. But I will see how it goes.

I suppose it comes with practice but I've done so many I don't even ruin the tie strap any more.A bench grinder works fine but I prefer a die grinder with a cut-off wheel.

 

[stevieb]

A die grinder is a small grinder not like a flat angle grinder?

 

[Al Smith]

A die grinder is a small grinder not like a flat angle grinder?

Yep,a little bitty one.Kind of like a big Dremel.A small right angle grinder would work also.