R Clip - correct name for the pin the clip goes through

[rikrobson]

Thats not a cotter pin. This is a cotter pin:

 

[Robotstar5]

I've always known cotter pins as the type used on bicycles, and not as it's commonly used for, a split pin

 

[Wedg1e]

I've always known cotter pins as the type used on bicycles, and not as it's commonly used for, a split pin

Ditto; many's the time I recall braying stuck cotters out of cranks... often with my old man's best panel-beating mallet

 

[Cobbler]

Ditto; many's the time I recall braying stuck cotters out of cranks... often with my old man's best panel-beating mallet

What a vandal, couldn't you use half a brick like the rest of us

 

[Robotstar5]

Am I the only person ever to use a bicycle crank cotter pin removal tool?

Is there a proper tool then?

 

[rikrobson]

Is there a proper tool then?

yup

my old man's best panel-beating mallet

 

[PhillipM]

Ditto; many's the time I recall braying stuck cotters out of cranks... often with my old man's best panel-beating mallet

Jesus, if I'd done that as a lad I'd be needing some cotter pins to hold my leg bones back together.

 

[julianthegypsy]

Am I the only person ever to use a bicycle crank cotter pin removal tool?

Yes. No-one else even knew they existed.