Anyone made their own Chainwhips?
They look pretty fucking easy, ive got plenty of spare 1/8th chain, a hacksaw and a drill.
Any hot tips or is it pretty idiot proof?
Cheers,
Undies
sounds alright. what are you going to use for a handle?
Made one with the metal bar from a $2 shop sliding clamp for the handle, needed to hammer the second pin in as my chain tool wouldn’t push the pin in. Worked well until someone at track appropriated it…
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He made me a bomb proof one.
got a pic of it?
I was just gonna use a random bit of steel from one of the engineering places down the road then wrap it with bar tape.
I think that’s what he did.
I’ll take a pic tonight.
It’s tuff as shit.
yeah sweet, i mite grab a few legnths of steel and knock a few up if anyone wants one, got heeeeps of old chain here.
use a new black pin…freakin hurts when one lets go.
I made one 1/8 on one side and 3/32 the other.
all you need is a bit of steel with a few holes in it, some chain and a bench vice
I saw a tool in a $2 store down Sydney Rd called a “chain oil filter tool” that looked the business for all of $3.50. I haven’t tried it because I already have a perfectly good one someone knocked up 20 years ago, but if I were getting a new one I’d give it a try first.
i made mine out a piece of billet alu and an old chain with a nut a bolt to hold it on. works great!
I’m interested to see how these turn out, please post pics. If there was some way you could integrate a lock ring tool, that would be sweet.
would be cool but i already got a lock ring tool and id imagine that you would need hardened steel for that.
Just bought a bicycle tool kit thing which come with a whip so its not ontop of my things to do list but will still knock a few up when i have the time.
I bought a shimano one because tools are an area I’m not scared to spend the right money on, but if you made a budget one you could probably sell quite a lot of them.
Hey any one have a pic of one they have made?