help whats up with new chain

What's the matter with my stating the truth? Hmm? I've forgotten more
about chains that you ever knew about them...I'am also a better human
being than a chickenhawk like you.

 

Oki. Whatever.

 

You don't know how to fasten spring link clips. Get another and try
again.

 

No, it doesn't.

 

Always use a pair of broad-nosed pliers to replace clips. Never level
them with a screwdriver. See an illustrated manual or something for how
it's done.

 

If you mean (as I think you do) with the closed end facing the direction
of travel, yes, absolutely, but there's a *way* in which it should be
attached - pushed on with pliers braced against the close bit, and not
by winkling the open end apart with a screwdriver. Difficult to explain
without a picture.

The problem here is that he managed to bend the clip, which strongly
suggests he didn't fit it properly, rather than fit it the wrong way
round, because it popped off with hand pressure.

 

Not that I've seen

No, you push the master link inboard because the pins are tapered. It
holds the sideplate more firmly.

 

I've installed brand new clips that weren't flat, one leg was slightly
bent. I figured that the clip was engineered that way.

I used to lose masterlink clips on the race track and some racers were
safety wiring the clips. The pressed on side plate would never come
off though.

I started degreasing the clip and the side plate and applying a drop
of red Loctite and I haven't lost a clip 25 years....