Stuck dowel pin in Sierra

[hsuan]

We have working on this stuck dowel pin for several hours now. We used rust removal grease from home depot, vinegar, ultra sonic cleaner, hammer.... It wouldn't move an inch.

Any suggestion or experience to share would be appreciated.

[Mo2vation]

Cut it off

Punch it out

Replace it.



Had this happen several times... ain't no thing, buddy.

Cut, punch, replace.

McMaster Carr has them.

-Ken

[hsuan]

Thanks Ken,
It ends up a pair of right size vice grips from San Diego Divers was able to get it out (after another good 20 mins of pulling and rotating...).
We were about to cut this thing and punch it out.

[renoun]

I like the pin punches from springtools.com. They are perfect for situations when you don't want to hit something with a hammer. I use the pin punches all the time to drive out hinge pins on expensive doors and their nail sets work really well too.


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[Mo2vation]

I like the pin punches from springtools.com. They are perfect for situations when you don't want to hit something with a hammer. I use the pin punches all the time to drive out hinge pins on expensive doors and their nail sets work really well too.


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These things look great! Thanks for the tip.

[hsuan]

I like the pin punches from springtools.com. They are perfect for situations when you don't want to hit something with a hammer. I use the pin punches all the time to drive out hinge pins on expensive doors and their nail sets work really well too.


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Interesting tools. I was looking for something to fix the nails sticking out of the wood trim. Thanks for sharing.

[TobinGeorge]

Cut and punch works, but....

I prefer to use a pair of vice grips. Clamp the Vice Grips onto one end of the dowel pin and then strike the vice grips with a hammer to pull the pin through the shaft. The stainless steel dowels used are not hardened and this allows the vice grip jaws to "bite" into the pin. This technique would likely fail with a hardened steel dowel.

If the pin is badly bent cutting off one end close to the shaft and pulling the remainder with vice grips helps.

Tobin