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Re: Pre-1990 friction pegs removal techniques?
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lugnet.technic
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Fri, 4 Jul 2003 11:57:48 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Gaurav Thakur wrote:
> 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.
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 sort of stretch point built in to prevent them from pinching so
tight). My only problem comes when I put them into a blind connection, like
into the end of an angle connector. In those instances, I've got a pair of
toothless needlenose pliers, and if I grip with them firmly enough, and pull
with them gently enough, I can remove the notchless #2's without any noticable
damage. Fortunately, pretty much all of the #2's that I have are of the notched
variety, so I made a special point of using all of my notchless #2's on
IG-8OA8's hands and feet. I figured the chances of me ever wanting to
disassemble him are pretty tiny, and I made sure not to use them in any blind
connections, so even if I do decide to pop some pieces apart, it shouldn't be a
problem.
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-03, to lugnet.technic)
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