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...