For the chain breakers that look like the jpg link below with the jaw type, I found they are not made to great.
I mean I like them, even though they are not for pushing pins back in, you would get a separate tool or another kind that does both.
What I found was that the pin may not line up very well on the axis across the chain. Lengthwise they seem to be fine.
The tip is a trick I found to help the pin center. I either keep a small amount of tension with one hand pushing down or up on the handle, mean while other hand twisting the pin downward and viewing with lighted magnifier to see it stays centered on the chain pin being pushed.
And of course as we all know just push a small amount and then move over to the other pin in the link to push a little there. Going over back and forth like 3 times so not to bend the link being removed, which would cause damage or fail to remove link at all.
Then the master link fits it all back together nice.
I also count the pins carefully and use two twist ties 4 pins away, to the left and right of the pair of pins on the link you are removing. Then they don't get in the way of the jaw of the tool, but you can see you are removing the correct pins by counting distance offset.
For pedal gear chains, I see people like to be flashy and sometimes use stainless steel chain and chain half or one an one half links.
That is OK but definitively not for the engine gear chain. I use #35 chain and the bushings of just the offset link made of stainless steel was dented in bad. Then this loosened the chain of regular steel by default.
It jumped the sprocket and the whole chain is now garbage.
Hardened steel, not stainless steel is back and running again.
I sanded the sprocket teeth, but they look like they didn't but get scratched a little.
I am testing near by home first before hitting the trails again for the licensed only for off road known as OHV (Off Highway Vehicle) in the Bureau of Land Management National Forest designated areas.