Even when partially displaced by a screwed link link pusher I had to link pull at the exposed bar as though I was trying to extract a healthy molar from a Siberian tiger. Removing the first pin bent the surrounding link elements all of which had to link be carefully squeezed back into shape with pliers. By the time I got to the second link I had adopted a wiggle technique that turned the pin as much as it pulled this technique proved somewhat slower but considerably less destructive.