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Pre-1990 friction pegs removal techniques?
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 1 Jul 2003 03:12:04 GMT
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As most of you know, the black friction pegs included in Technic sets issued
before 1990 had a design that made them extremely hard to work with. I was
wondering how the rest of you go about removing these things from other other
pieces. The method I have been using to do this is the one given on the back of
some of the older Technic manuals, to push it out of the hole with an axle.
However, this requires so much force that it ends up deforming the peg itself;
the side that the axle pushed on gets considerably smashed, and occasionally
even the edges of the hole on the brick get slightly dented.
I was recently dissassembling a built 8865 to use the pieces for one my other
things; it took almost twice as long as most other models of comparable size and
I finished with a broken fingernail and several blisters. :p I had one or two
cases where even the above method would not work; I couldn't get the blasted
things out no matter how much force I exerted onto the axle and only ended up
completely warping the peg.
Does anyone have a better solution for taking these pegs out, one that does not
deform the peg (or your hands) so much?
-Gaurav
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Message has 8 Replies:
 | | Re: Pre-1990 friction pegs removal techniques?
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| (...) In the cases where I've had one of those installed in a place where it can be pushed completely through the connection, I've never had any problems like the ones you've mentioned above (most of the modern TECHNIC plus-shaped holes have some (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Pre-1990 friction pegs removal techniques?
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| (...) I've always used the official technique of making the T-shaped piece from two axles and pushing the peg out. If the black pegs are *really* stubborn, I build a sort of block with a 2x2 hole down the middle and lay the technic beam and peg over (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Pre-1990 friction pegs removal techniques?
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| (...) Teeth, man. Use your teeth! :-) When I was much younger, and a little short in the brains department(1), I used my teeth for much of my difficult LEGO disassembly. Consequently, I have a chipped tooth and many chewed up LEGO parts. Seriously, (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Pre-1990 friction pegs removal techniques?
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| I simply use a 16L beam with cross axle/peg type pegs in the outermost holes. You align with the target beam on the one peg and then press the two beams together forcing the black peg out with the other cross axle peg. I've done whole 8865's this (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Pre-1990 friction pegs removal techniques?
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| Thanks for the responses, everyone. (...) I generally also use the notched 2 axles in my models, but I seem to actually have way more of the older notchless type. Those are pretty easy to remove by using the older type of half-bushings though (part (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Pre-1990 friction pegs removal techniques?
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| (...) Gaurav, I always have one of these: (URL) lying around - lets you push down, and makes it much easier to remove such pins. Unfortunately, some older pins still get distorted, and call me wasteful, but I just throw them in the bin. I have more (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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