just about to install a new chain on the bike and sram now provide a snap link which you have to flex the chain inward and the pins pop into the holes in the plates. This is fine… but how the flinkin blip do you take it apart?

I have read on tinternet and it appears you have to reverse the process but from the general talk this is not easy and maybe even impossible, resulting in splitting the chain and installing a new snap link.

does this sound right or is the internet talk just nonsense?

There is a wonderful little tool that makes it really simple, needs to live in everyones toolbox

https://pedros.com/products/tools/cassette-and-chain/quick-link-pliers/

as above, buy a tool that does both installing and removing. Some people will come along and say you don’t need a tool to  do either but once you have tried one you wont go back.

The new links are supposed to be single use hence the comments you have seen but that’s not my experience…especially if you have the correct tool to fit and remove them a few times.

Those tools are for a regular quick link on a derailleur chain. eg 8/9/10/11 speed. Don’t think it will help for a singlespeed chain, eg the PC1.

Its a rather different sort of link, you have to bend the chain sideways to unclip it. Or just use a chain tool, to push a pin out.