How To Make A Chain Whip/Sprocket Remover Tool

I show how to make a homemade chain whip/sprocket remover tool. A chain whip is used to hold the cassette while the lock ring is loosened when removing a cassette from a bike wheel. For Shimano Uniglide cassettes, two chain whips are used to remove the lock ring/cog.
These are the chain whips I display in the video:
Park Tool SR-2 Shop Sprocket Remover:
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Avenir Chain Whip:
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I get some viewers asking what a chain whip is for. Okay, here are a couple videos where I use a chain whip:
• How To Change A Casset...
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[@ChrisinOSMS]

Thank you, I built one today for about $10.00 and 2 hrs work. Your clear, concise instructions saved my at least $20.00. I was able to remove my cassette and degunk a malfunctioning free hub, also using your instructions. I used an old inner tube wrapped in electrical tape for a handle. Worked great!

[@yunnamed]

You gotta love how inches always come with "just a bit under", just a wee bit more than half ". But the best is the drill bit, 9/64th inch, love it!

[@mbk1251]

It's taken me 8yrs to wear out a cog cassette and now I'm been charged either £10 to remove inshop or buy the tool for £16 This is just what I needed .flat bar always just been laying around waiting Nice straight forward Video instructions Keep up the video Thanks again

[@core2zero]

i improvised one with a piece of wood and a few links of a chain, now watching this one to make sure my next one is a little more polished

[@35degC]

My old chain whip broke while removing a cog. Thankfully there's a 4mm flat bar laying around. Drilled it and transferred the chain in less 30mins. Works great, plus better leverage since it's longer than the previous one. Thank you sir

[@ian_thomas]

Hey, RJ! Thanks so much for this awesome video. Just made a couple of chain whips yesterday, and while it's nice to save some money, it's even more satisfying making a tool and putting it to use! Thanks very much for your great videos, each one is very informative!

[@paulmackenzie6461]

Thanks, created two chip whips. The only thing I did different was use 3mm x 6mm steel rivets. Worked great! Thanks and keep uploading your great videos.

[@dsaxton84]

Great idea and very simple to make. I used a spare scrap of angle iron rather than a strip of steel. This created a nice flat part on top where i was gripping and pushing And added extra stiffnes. Though as stated below many materials work fine. Thanks RJ, this saved me some $ and a trip to the bike shop, plus i already had the chain scraps since i typically replace my chain and casette and the same time.

[@ChunderDTD]

I made one of these a few weeks ago with these instructions and it works like a charm. I ended up making only a 14" handle which seems long enough for my uses. Also, the steel bar at Home Depot was in the $6-7 range for 3 ft. Thanks for the video @RJ The Bike Guy !

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

Lowes I think has it for about $5.

[@970SHARKO]

thing is that with the money you spend to buy the stuff, it makes sense to buy spend a few bucks on a shop grade whip

[@ZeroColdx911]

Better and cheaper than the Chinese specials

[@joepelham]

hey was approaching dismal failure watched ur video and made my own whip out of scrap got the spoke in and tuned it enough to ride THANKS !

[@jasonstalder5208]

Thanks for the video buddy, I had stuff laying around that worked and I used the old rivets and hammered em back in as I didn't have bolts. Much appreciated

[@saifcathum3423]

I can't believe all the dislikes for this video. Why? If you don't know how to use it or what it is for then you don't need it. Yea, you can get one for cheap. I did and it broke. Also I need one now and its after 9pm. And look at that, another lockdown. Now where you gonna get one?

[@AntiKipKay]

Gave you a like there. Not sure why some have disliked this video. It was very straight forward and helpful.

[@rayschrum5855]

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[@eatitl8r]

Great RJ! I finally have an old chain and can save a few bucks!

[@pedalingpete626]

I have no problem just holding the cassette tight with a rag. The rag technique is very useful when I tour. I only need carry the cassette tool and a few extra spokes just in case.

[@ricklafford8993]

Excellent video. Thanks much for showing us how to make this tool.

[@KeesFluitman]

now I need a how to make a chainremoval tool guide.

[@20EUR20]

💚 I have to change my chain today... then I'll make this tool ! 🚴MTB

[@a7xvic1]

useful cheap tool. thank you very much from Tijuana , México

[@tskedition]

Thanks, I needed chain whip really bad and took like 15 min to build from parts i already had

[@KiLLJOY1056]

It’s a Chain Wrench. not a Chain Whip. A Chain Whip is a Chinese weapon. This is not a whip. I can’t understand why OP and others are calling it a “Whip”.

[@chughes868]

Made my own on a whim and then saw your vid. The only thing different I might suggest is the bar material. In the lumber section of Home Depot, you can get stud reinforcers that are much thinner but for about .99 instead of $10. for the bar I saw. I duct taped three together to get the same thickness...

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

+Charles Hughes I bought the steel bar I used for $5 or less at Lowes.

[@chughes868]

Nice. Thanks again for the video. Considering most people are not going to use this type of tool very often, a DIY version is perfect.

[@hbmike47]

Charles Hughes depends entirely how you maintain (or don't) your bike. If you service the wheel bearings, you'll be using this fairly often.

[@DSM186]

Charles Hughes papa

[@seanscott7120]

Great video - I just followed it and made one. I have a "Scottish hack" (I'm Scottish) I made mine for $0 buy reusing the chain pins and pushing them back through. Yes I am cheap but resourceful.

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

The pins may pop out under stress.

[@blcyclerecycle2710]

Thanks brothr, today i Make the tool

[@tommurphy4307]

thanks for a great vid. i have to make 2 of them to tear my suntour new winner freewheel apart. i have some spare shimano 9S chain to use and got some 6-32 cap screws with 1/4" shanks to fit in the flat stock/outer links stack. i can crank some plain 6-32 nuts on there no nylocks needed and it will be much stronger than full-threaded screws. thanks again!

[@aliveandwell2078]

Great Vid!! I'm making one..

[@radekxyz196]

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[@blankgen8003]

Good one mate , it cost me. $1.75 for nuts and bolts ,rusty old chain and scraps . $45 from the shop , bugger that!

[@ironhorse19]

great video. very informative thanks for sharing

[@carlosamador8085]

Hey RJ, can you make a video on how to make a homemade lock ring remover/installer like the ones used on fixed gears?

[@franklinpoague4632]

Thank you for this! Did not want to buy one!

[@mikethemoneymaker]

To add to this subject: If you are on a tour and need to change a broken drive side spoke as an example, Azub recumbent added a decent video about how to remove a cassette with an improvised Chain Whip. Here is the link. How to change cassette on the road without the chain whip tool (not only for AZUB recumbents)

[@Eve....747]

Should have then used it on a cassette...., been better video....

[@josesilva9366]

Looks like the origin 8 logo on the black chainwhip

[@juraj_redeky]

Very useful video. THX for your channel. I Learn more new ;-)

[@WowRixter]

Your finger nails are longer than mine. LoL Good video =)

[@roncooke2188]

Just made one, great tool, I drilled an extra hole at the end, to hang it

[@paullaccone1901]

I love your videos, they are so helpful. I'm doing a project bike right now. I have a TREK 820. I want to convert it into a gravel bike. I want to make it a 1x? I am thinking a 9 spd cassette. I have 133mm on the spacing of rear frame where tire goes. What would you recommend for the chainring? The brakes on it ,look like shorty v brakes. I'm thinking cantilevers on it. I'll wait to see what you think. Going to repaint the bike too, and put gravel bars on it.

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

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[@Fernandonandonator]

nice whip

[@blcyclerecycle2710]

good, i try today

[@BOX-fe4iq]

GENIUS......

[@Pdxbmxndscoot]

Smart idea thanks

[@chrisguttler7897]

great diy howto, I made myself two of those!

[@jontaylor4511]

i've got a cheap hook wrench, i might mod it so i hsve a chainwhip on one side

[@jameskirkman9795]

It would be nice if you demonstrated how to use it!!!!

[@dugldoo]

Check park Tool videos. They have nice videos to show ya how to use all their tools.

[@HarryBawlz]

I made one even easier than this. I cut a 1ft. piece off a broom handle, took an old length of chain and simply screwed it to the handle. 1 screw on the tip and 1 screw 5 or 6 links down. It took about 3 mins. to make. I've used it several times and it works very well. If it breaks just find another broom handle and make a new one. Remember to drill pilot holes for the screws to keep the handle from splitting.

[@Orgakoyd]

***** I love leverage, you can never get enough of it, so i would make mine about 50 cm long.

[@Shyamal_wijesinghe]

Cool 👌

[@josephmartin2850]

Does it work well

[@s-savage]

Legend

[@austinkidd-smith]

I'm going to build one

[@VRCM_Skywarn_XUSA]

Thanks ...

[@dozzy000]

Hello RJ. Great videos im a subscriber....you've helped me before with my road bike...this time i bought an old japanese bike with rear band brake...i was searching through your videos and i cant seem to find any about those brakes...do you have any about those types of brake i would like to take it apart becuase mine is not braking well....thanks!!!!!

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

Sorry, but I have never worked on a bike with a band brake. I don't know anything about them.

[@pocopal]

good vid...I'm gonna make on.....AND>>>>how about "make a mallet"...sounds good to me..thanks.

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

My wooden mallet? I just started with a chunk of a dead tree in my back yard, and just turned it round on my lathe. Then eventually it turned into a mallet.

[@pocopal]

@@RJTheBikeGuy thanks

[@deumexmachinaviridi2326]

Uncle Larry lmao!😂

[@chrispools]

Nice vid. Just out of intrest, how much was the steel bar? I only ask as a standard chain whip tool is only £5

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

A few dollars I think. Cheaper if you have some scrap lying around.

[@pufarinu]

looks like XTR chain !

[@UKSeejay]

Fantastic video. I have one question, Would you not be able to use the pins what you have taken out of the old chain to attach it to the bar?

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

No. Pins are designed to be used once. They would be weak and wouldn't hold well.

[@Toastybear1]

Calum Jefferiss he's right, wouldn't work- unless you have a quick link chain, which is quite a good idea actually :)

[@TheGregdavid]

RJ The Bike Guy WHAT???? REALLY??? So you're saying that when I remove my chain from my bike with my chain breaker I cannot put it back on because I would have to use the pin again? Are you nuts? Time for a mechanical engineer to re-educate you in a few things chain. #1 Pins are easily pressed in and out with a chain breaker and it does (near) zero damage to the chain or the pins (usually). I have done hundreds of them. And the pins rarely ever get damaged as they are hardened steel. But sometimes the outer plates get damaged/bent/reamed as they are made of much softer steel (but still harder steel than the chain breaker/press pin). When an outer plate gets damaged, then you probably should not use it again, but I have and never had one fail in service. #2 Chain pins are made of much harder and tougher steel than your average hardware store socket head cap screw, esp. with the cap screw being threaded (aka a reduced diameter/cross sectional area). The only thing close to as hard as a chain pin would be a grade 8 socket head cap screw. (I doubt you used any, as they are not at all easy to find/source in smaller sizes, at least in/from your basic hardware store). #3 Chain pins do wear in the use of a chain, and thus 1/2 of why old chains "stretch" and why old chains should not be reused and why you should not use an old pin from an old chain on a new chain. But to use an old pin to make a chain whip would be 100% okay, as it is not so much weaker, as it is just a wee bit circumferentially worn in the center, thus a slightly smaller diameter in the middle section where the inner link/bushing rides. But the ends of the pin that press into the plates do not wear at all (or very much) and will be just as tight as always (unless the hole in the outer plate gets errantly reamed by a misaligned pin, then your outer plate is shot but your pin is still okay). #4 Be assured (by me) that your chain whip chain(s) will never ever see the sorts of stresses and strains that your actual bike chain on your bike sees, either monetarily, or over long periods of riding time. #5 Sorry to say, but you are 100% wrong on this one.

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

*shrug* do it your way.

[@ettienneschwagele6486]

Greg Kibitz It depends on the chain and the pins. On older chains you can reuse the pins, but on newer chains (9/10/11+ speeds) you cannot. Not easily anyway, you get special linking pins.

[@markjones6358]

I found your video informative and concise, except for the fact that I had absolutely no idea what a chain whip tool was used for. I think if you remake this video and add a very short demonstration or explanation that it will eliminate any negative comments.

[@roncooke2188]

Would you say that it needs a different whip for 10/11 speed cassette

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

No.

[@malakhpearson7285]

Better to use a none workable pipe wrench to convert as chain wrench because of its solid metal.

[@gttanwar1672]

Nice

[@lopezbc]

BRUUUHHH I WISH I WOULDA SEEN THIS 2 DAYS AGO BEFORE I SPENT OVER $30 ON A PARK TOOLS SR-11 SHIIIIIIT

[@makenchips]

Don Mega

[@CHIBA280CRV]

Sweeeet thanks

[@BARDAKABRAMA]

Anyway, you've never shown how you are using your chain whip

[@johnchrissos7108]

👍🏻

[@danielthevampire7429]

I thought a chain whip was for protection for bmc riders and is a tool

[@mikesss4699]

how it work brow

[@mikemcgln5049]

how does it work ????????????????

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

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[@edwardlui531]

my homemade one actually bent on one of the stuck cassette, i still cant get the cassette out:

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

How did you bend it on a cassette? The chain whip is only used to hold the cassette while you turn the lock ring with a lock ring tool. Or in the case of a uniglide cassette, to hold the cassette and another to turn the lock ring. Neither should put enough force on the tool to bend it.

[@edwardlui531]

well my lockring is stuck

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

I have never seen a stuck lock ring on a cassette. I could see it with a uniglide cassette maybe where the chain is tightening the smallest cog which locks the cassette on to the hub. But a lock ring is just tightened on with a wrench. The torque specs on most lock rings is like 30-40nm.

[@edwardlui531]

it is a sram cassette on a mavic hub. It is missing one spacer at the end, that guy probably thought he didn't tighten it enough and end up with a stuck lockring

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

You might take it a shop and let them use a shop grade Park Tool chain whip. The bar is going to be stronger. I am surprised the screws didn't bend first.

[@tedclayton6913]

how do you use it?

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

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[@devkartractorhadgaon8475]

Ted Clayton

[@ox3289]

IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE MAN

[@neilfroggycrompton2466]

cant buy imperial size here in australia so i'm using metric sized bar 25.3 x 3mm is the closest size i can get,i could cut 2 x 18 inch lengths out of 1 metre bar length with 3 inches of scrap,so rather than waste that small piece i'll make them 19 1/2 inches & have extra leverage. (laughing)

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

The size of the bar does not need to be anywhere near exact. Whatever works.

[@derekhobbs1102]

I'm in Australia too, that size you got is basically 1 x 1/8 inch. I'll be making 2 tools as I need to remove an old Uniglide.

[@neilfroggycrompton2466]

+Derek Hobbs 25.3 mm is the closest metric size,masters sells 1 metre lengths of this size bar with galvanizing,the gal shoudnt get in the way as the 3mm thickness is less than the inner width between chain outer plates,but u could add a washer the fill the gap :)

[@hbmike47]

Derek Hobbs 1" =25.4 mm, so the bar is just a bit slimmer, but it's longer! 3 mm is a bit thin as it's only about 1/8". 3/16 =4.75 mm. the 1/8" seemed a bit bendy to me. Who said size doesn't matter mate? Cheers!

[@KiLLJOY1056]

Why are we calling these “Whips” and “Chain Whips”? A Chain Whip is already a thing, and it’s not this. It’s a Chain Clamp or Chain Wrench. Not a whip.

[@ScreamingEagleFTW]

why dont you demonstrate it? otherwise it would have been a great video

[@dominicpardo4783]

Less than 10 bucks on ebay?

[@KiLLJOY1056]

Yeah, Chain Wrench, not Chain Whip. Somebody is going to buy a Chain Whip and be very dissatisfied when they get a Chinese Weapon Whip, and not a Wrench Tool. Or they’ll be very excited lol.

[@dominicpardo4783]

@killjoy1056 Got a used but in great shape Park Tool chainwhip for $8 on ebay

[@andychrist2557]

Chain whips are not that expensive.

[@oktaydogan2552]

ne işe yarıyor bu !

[@RJTheBikeGuy]

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Salihl

[@f.xvilla8853]

you dint explain how you going to use it.

[@sandorfarkas1138]

Ügyes

[@captaintanker7]

You should probaly not chew your nails so much that all I could think... Those arent working hands those are habbitual nail biter hands.