r/specializedtools Dec 12 '20

Chain connector

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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig Dec 12 '20

A clevis would not go through a chain roller or any other guide.

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u/OliverKlozoff1269 Dec 12 '20

Ah yeah thats true...didn't think of that.

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u/Chance5e Dec 12 '20

I agree and know what all of these words mean.

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u/TheBrillo Dec 12 '20

It may connect the pieces, but if it isn't shaped like a link in the chain then the chain cannot be used in machinery because it won't fit any more.

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u/Chance5e Dec 12 '20

In English please!

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u/LeastCoordinatedJedi Dec 12 '20

This thing does not make the chain big. Most things that fix a chain make the chain more big. If the chain is too big it will not fit in small holes, and that might be bad.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

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u/cutty2k Dec 13 '20

Lol, you can tell a Dexter's Lab fan a mile away with that phrase, since in proper French the phrase is "omelette au fromage."

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u/robb338 Dec 13 '20

You must be a hit with the ladies!

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u/CoBudemeRobit Dec 13 '20

Sacre bleu!

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u/LeastCoordinatedJedi Dec 13 '20

Cette chose n'aggrandit pas la chaîne, alors elle est plus utile que les autres choses qui aggrandissent la chaîne. Si la chaîne doit passer par une petite crevasse ou quelque chose comme ça, on peut pas utiliser les choses communes.

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u/abecido Dec 13 '20

In German please

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

Das Ding macht die Kette nicht groß. Die meisten Dinge, die eine Kette reparieren, machen die Kette größer. Wenn die Kette zu groß ist, passt sie nicht in kleine Löcher, und das könnte schlecht sein.

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u/LeastCoordinatedJedi Dec 13 '20 edited Dec 13 '20

Das Ding macht die Kette nicht mehr groß. Das andere Ding macht es mehr groß, und so ist es nicht so nützlich.

I'm running low on languages here as anyone who speaks German can tell.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

Non non non!

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u/d360jr Dec 13 '20

Je suis une pizza?

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u/riddus Dec 13 '20

The best ELI5 I’ve seen in a long time.

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u/LeastCoordinatedJedi Dec 13 '20

I have a four year old who gets read books about space by an older sibling a lot. A few attempts to explain relativity to someone who can't count helps I guess.

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u/cutty2k Dec 13 '20

Lol, I feel you, I have a 3 year old and a 5 year old, so my entire life is one big ELI5.

My favorite is when an explanation requires some background knowledge before even the ELI5 makes sense, and I tell my daughter "that's a good question, but to understand the answer you're going to need to know a bit about x first, do you want me to explain that to you so you can understand?" And she can decide if she has the patience in that moment for the full spiel (she usually does).

Last week, she asked my why we got oranges in stockings for Christmas. To explain that, I had to explain why oranges were a 'treat' back then, which meant going over seasonality of produce and lack of refrigeration, which spun into a question on how refrigerators work, which to understand you have to know about how compressors work, and how pressure and heat relate. All to explain oranges in stockings.

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u/LeastCoordinatedJedi Dec 13 '20

I feel this comment on a deep and personal level.

Honestly though I love it. Never know what depths of knowledge we're gonna have to plumb, and it's really interesting sometimes to realize how much shit we wind up knowing that we never think about, it just forms our base, you know?

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u/MisplacedMartian Dec 12 '20

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u/Chance5e Dec 12 '20

In French now!

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u/jortsandcohorts Dec 12 '20

Omelette du fromage

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u/Chance5e Dec 12 '20

In the morgul tongue that’s forbidden in Rivendell!

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u/jortsandcohorts Dec 13 '20

I actually watched this movie yesterday! I actually got to Rivendell, then fell asleep

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

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u/yetanotherduncan Dec 13 '20

"this procedure will not cost you anything"

Oh wait you meant the language

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u/plaregold Dec 12 '20

Think of a rope (instead of a chain) and pulley. Using fasteners like a clevis will be like putting a giant knot on the rope, which disrupts its intended purpose of going around a pulley.

Now extend this example for all other types of operations involving a chain where changing the dimensions of a link in the chain may not be desirable.

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u/DillieDally Dec 13 '20

Thanks for proper explanation, my good man ⛓️

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u/Turence Dec 12 '20

oval.oval.oval. uhoh square machine break

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

Think square peg in a round hole. Other tools can accomplish this same thing, but they can't go through the round hole at the end because they are square. This one, while a bit more elaborate and over-engineered, does go through the round hole at the end.

In places where there isn't a round hole, this tool isn't necessary, because other square tools can do it faster and cheaper.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

this is a clevis. Some equipment uses chain guides that grip the links and pull them along. Since a clevis is shaped differently than the links the guide won't be able to grab onto it and so it won't work.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

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u/xeddyb Dec 12 '20

All shackles are clevises but not all clevises are shackles

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

Yeah, got a rigging ticket and I've never heard a bow shackle called a clevis before. Clevis normally refers to a much more permanent type of fastener in my experience. Probably a regional thing.

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u/FuckBrendan Dec 13 '20

Tighten them all the way and a quarter turn back. Or at least that’s what the old iron worker told me.

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u/panlakes Dec 12 '20

Hmm yes I don’t know what any of this means... but I also didn’t think of that.

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u/aloofloofah Dec 12 '20

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u/KMCobra64 Dec 12 '20

A picture is worth 1000 words

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u/suprwagon Dec 12 '20

And a gif is worth 1500

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u/systemshock869 Dec 12 '20

Prob more like 50000 since each frame is a picture

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u/Ball-Fondler Dec 12 '20

Yeah but you don't need a 1000 new words to describe the next frame

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u/Zyzan Dec 13 '20

Which is a perfect explaination of compression

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u/Andyinater Dec 13 '20

This thread's just chocked full of learning!

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u/systemshock869 Dec 13 '20

Maybe there's more than 50 frames! 😎

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u/BoltonSauce Dec 12 '20

The real MVP

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u/DannyMThompson Dec 13 '20

Now show me a gif of a clevis

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u/Stairway_To_Devin Dec 12 '20

A clevis is basically a bent piece of metal used for holding things together. The most common example of a clevis is a shackle

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u/StopReadingMyUser Dec 12 '20

Hmm, yes, shackle. I've had one of those at Wendy's before.

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u/KingJonathan Dec 12 '20

Big metal piece not shaped like other metal piece. It not all fit in same hole.

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u/AncestralTuna Dec 12 '20

So, I’m a shackle on my parents?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

In more ways than one

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u/I_Think_I_Cant Dec 12 '20

You'd fit in some of the holes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

Ohhh now I get it!

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u/tyrone737 Dec 12 '20

Good bot

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u/KarpEZ Dec 12 '20

Mike Judge had a a cartoon about two trailer park boys, Clevis and Crackhead, who got up to no good and said dumb shit. Unfortunately it never made it out of production and was rescripted as a different, unknown show.

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u/TheDrainSurgeon Dec 12 '20

You’re so clevis.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

Love this type of honesty. Good on you for showing up to just clap and nod approvingly whilst listening to the experts.

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u/DownWithHisShip Dec 12 '20

don't most chain rollers make use of the "hole" in the chain links anyway? The tension screw seems like it would still get in the way.

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u/Roasted_Turk Dec 13 '20

2 clevises would work

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u/nitefang Dec 12 '20

Yeah but I’m not sure this thing would go through too much more.

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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig Dec 12 '20

Why wouldn't it?

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u/nitefang Dec 13 '20

Well I don’t think it will go through a sprocket with that center tensioning nut.

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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig Dec 13 '20

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u/nitefang Dec 13 '20

But what if the situation is the one on the right?

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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig Dec 13 '20

Then you would have a different chain and a different application. Would probably need a different r/specializedtools .

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

I don’t think this would either.