Don't do this

[vettefever333]

Thought you folks might need a laugh. I received my new M14 scope mount today. To mount I needed to remove the stripper guide. I have a monster amount of tools and sauntered over to the tool chest and picked up what I thought was the correct pin punch to remove the roll pin in the guide and proceeded to drive it out. Me thinks the roll pin was metric and the pin punch Imperial. 35 minutes of gently twisting using vice grips to get the pin punch back out of the hole praying it didn't break. Lucky me, it came out with patience.

 

[Northman999]

You are lucky. It's good that people post these sort of things so others might be warned ahead of time!

 

[Hokus Grey]

That is funny!

Glad it didn't mess anything up for you!

 

[Petrock]

I broke my pin... had to go to a professional to get it out.

 

[eltorro]

Hungry describes the direction from which the pin can be driven out easily.

Hungry here: Yup, top to bottom! Nothing too crazy! But, yeah, I've broken punches also! ha ha ha

 

[chemo]

i don't get it...
I used normal hammer and hammered stripper clip guide, it broke the pin, chucked both the broken roll pin and stripper clip guide in the junk and installed my scope mount

 

[Zeb]

I didn't have any punches handy & was too impatient to wait untill the tool store opened up (next day). So I start thinking of what I can use in place of a pin punch. I grabbed a drill bit. Got the pin moving but then the bit did what it was designed to to....bite & drill into objects. Shortly thereafter...the bit broke. The stripper clip guide still in place & it's pin partially out. So....out comes the "Universal Mistake Fixer-upper Tool" (Dremel with cutoff disc). 60 min latter & 1/2 doz cutoff discs....the stripper clip guide is remove (segment by segment). No marks on the receiver. Lesson Learned !!

 

[Fenix.NZ]

i used the smallest allen key that i had .. worked

 

[Ryan j]

I didn't have any punches handy & was too impatient to wait untill the tool store opened up (next day). So I start thinking of what I can use in place of a pin punch. I grabbed a drill bit. Got the pin moving but then the bit did what it was designed to to....bite & drill into objects. Shortly thereafter...the bit broke. The stripper clip guide still in place & it's pin partially out. So....out comes the "Universal Mistake Fixer-upper Tool" (Dremel with cutoff disc). 60 min latter & 1/2 doz cutoff discs....the stripper clip guide is remove (segment by segment). No marks on the receiver. Lesson Learned !!

That reminds me of the Red Green episode where Red changes a headlight in his car with a Skillsaw......