[Bluberryrain]

Originally Posted by Triple Jim

A friend made this video. I've done it this way since then, if I bother doing anything extra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlTMKMk2CIo

Thanks for the video! I think I'll use that method. Haha your friend says:

I'll tell you, losing a chain on the freeway once is enough! 

....That it is.


I would smooth those ends of the bolts and any dented flat of the hexagonal shape of the nuts with a good file.

The areas that really do the work (threads of the nuts, washer-like surface of the nuts and threads of the bolts that are inside the nuts) are intact.

The filing is for protecting the threads of the nuts while unscrewing them.

Cool, thanks for the reassurance Hernan! That is what I will do.