Originally Posted by
SethL
My goal would be to do this without replacing the chain or chainrings because those are fairly new...
It's good to have goals. Your goal reinforces the "waste not, want not" frame of reference that we're so fond of here.
Fairly new doesn't really tell the story. Measuring the elongation does tell whether the chain should require replacing. 12" pin-to-pin. Greater than 1/16" elongation?