Soak the stingers and tenons in alcohol for about 10 minutes. They’re glued in with tar. You can also try a few freeze thaw cycles. Wiggle them out very gently or risk snapping the tenon off.
We heat the stingers up and they come out quite easily alsoSlowly heat the tip of the stingers with a heat gun or lighter to soften any build-up in the tenon and carefully pull them free with pliers.
This would be my suggestion.Slowly heat the tip of the stingers with a heat gun or lighter to soften any build-up in the tenon and carefully pull them free with pliers.
This worked like a charm. Stingers removed in less than ten seconds each. Thanks again.Slowly heat the tip of the stingers with a heat gun or lighter to soften any build-up in the tenon and carefully pull them free with pliers.
Very welcome.This worked like a charm. Stingers removed in less than ten seconds each. Thanks again.
Bingo, exactly this. You can also soak a fuzzy cleaner, and run it from the button end down, into the stinger. i I insert this in a tall shot glass and it wicks up some of the alcohol (fill to above the stinger line). That almost always works.Soak the stingers and tenons in alcohol for about 10 minutes. They’re glued in with tar. You can also try a few freeze thaw cycles. Wiggle them out very gently or risk snapping the tenon off.
The freezer option can be hazardous as well. As the tars expand from freezing they can split the tenon like water in a bottle.Some stingers are threaded and need unscrewed. Those look like push-in (friction fit)
Embers heat suggestion also effective but don't heat enough to tweak the tenon.
Then there are those that actually are the tenon.Just for the record. Some i have found to be threaded.
As for my removing the stingers? Yep, a lighter and pliers did the trick.Any luck yet?