Plated pins and soforth

Originally Posted by wayne

What's the quickest way you have found of pulling the pins?

Nice stash, by the way!

The quickest way is a hammer mill. However I am at this moment using the little dikes you see in the pic. I grip the soldier ball and slip the pin out of the carrier socket. You can take a piece of pipe with a cap on one end about 3 inch in diamiter. Slid the ends in there and take something solid such as a piece of 1 inch rebar or whatever is handy. Smash the heck out of the things lol. Then seperate. My truck is down for the day so im just tooling around with this. There is just over a pound in the jar. Asfor return I honestly cant say. Some times its really great sometimes not so great. Due to plating differences an such.

Originally Posted by joebob49

The quickest way is a hammer mill. However I am at this moment using the little dikes you see in the pic. I grip the soldier ball and slip the pin out of the carrier socket. You can take a piece of pipe with a cap on one end about 3 inch in diamiter. Slid the ends in there and take something solid such as a piece of 1 inch rebar or whatever is handy. Smash the heck out of the things lol. Then seperate. My truck is down for the day so im just tooling around with this. There is just over a pound in the jar. Asfor return I honestly cant say. Some times its really great sometimes not so great. Due to plating differences an such.

I'm glad you posted on this topic. Pulling pins is an idea I've been wrestling with myself. In regard to a hammer mill, can you tell me what you use? Did you buy one or build one? If bought, what brand do you recommend? If built, how do you build one?

Originally Posted by martyweil

I'm glad you posted on this topic. Pulling pins is an idea I've been wrestling with myself. In regard to a hammer mill, can you tell me what you use? Did you buy one or build one? If bought, what brand do you recommend? If built, how do you build one?

I used to have one I built. I used an old military 20gal barrel. Welded angle iron inside it straight up and down 4 pieces. cut a door in the side of it with a latch. took some old scooter wheels and drilled holes on each end of the barrel for a shaft. Used the bearings in the scooter wheels for the shaft. Made a rack out of an old bed frame mounted the washing machine motor to the rack Used a belt off a 302 ford engine to run the mill. I used descent sized rocks to smash the ingredients. When I build another I will post about it.