Hi Bald_Pig sorry about the delay in replying lost the internet for a while, I did look into that with the pin punch but was a bit wary of my precision with the hammer, as luck would have it the solution presented itself, when I was binning the packaging it rattled and Lo stuck up on the inside of the box out of sight was the spring-clip joining link I had ordered so all is well and I'm clocking up the k's.