Coupling Link Pin Removal

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Thor

...then put in a freezer in a zip lock to keep oil from getting in the freezer, leave it over night, then add some heat from a blow driver.

... ...Maybe a "blow dryer"??? Like your wife's hair dryer??? No wives left here [hooray!] and they took their hair dryers with them...

Is there some reason (besides fussy wife) not to have oil in freezer??? Does it react with the Freon or something???

PS sometimes I use a lead brickette (from handgun bullet casting operations) to hold the parts during the hammer/punch operation

Do you punch the pin right into the lead brickette??? That's something I had not thought of...I sometimes do that with wood, but not on a Luger pin...I'll have to remember that...

[Thor]

Yes a hair dryer.
Just dont like oil me steak packages! har har
Yes, I do punch it into the lead, but then after it starts I put it on a punch thing that has several different size holes for the pin to move in.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Thor

Just dont like oil me steak packages!

In my house, the oven and freezer are shop tools...

I put it on a punch thing...

Ah - So that's the technical term!!!

(I didn't know what it was called either)