I am trying to remove a door and cannot figure out how to get the pins out.
Seem they are normal hinges (not adjustable or anything) except the bottom appears to have a cap with a hole in it (I think its decorative)
I tried using allan wrench up in the hole thinking it had to be unscrewed, and even banging them out with a hammer an nail put in the hole, to no avail.
Is this some special hinge I need to know what to do ? Or just bang harder (can’t get too large a nail up in the hole though). Other?
here is a pic from the bottom
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/bo444444/6bf4b420.jpg
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Sail
Those appear to be ball bearing hinges, but that doesn't (in my experience) mean squat about the pins being anything odd as far as removal.
I've taken a 12 or 16 headed nail and cut off the tip so it will drive straight and managed to dislodge "frozen" pins.
The proper way would be with a drift of the proper size to get in the hole at the bottom.
Of course, if not having any luck-block up the bottom of the door and remove one side's screws.
Thanks Calvin
I banged away and they popped free.
I guess the grease and or the weight of the door must have been what kept them from readily popping free. I just didn't wnat to start banging and screw something up if it were a special type hinge.
A standard size pin wouldn't work (the hole was too small), I just used a thin bolt I had lying around.
Good to hear
When you get into some of the decorative tips........................Emtek is one that come to mind-they make it as hard as they can................if you try to pop off the pin from the top like you can with those old painted up antiques............you'll drive the pressed on ball right off. Seems some even have a threaded bottom ball, you remove then can tap up the pin. If you try to drive from the top, you could booger up the threaded balls............
It'd be nice if somebody would make a rubber coated (for grip w/o damage) pair of vice grips for the myriad ways to remove these nice polished hinge pins.