How to Remove a Stuck Pistol Grip?

[Cookeit]

Hey guys,

My small uhlmann visconti is stuck on my foil. This was fine until my guard broke near the forte today...

I have tried taking the hex out, but the grip is still stuck on.

I am pretty sure it is the lock washer keeping it in there.

However, I strangely found a little bit of glue residue near the opening of where the hex goes in... NO, I did not do this, and I have no idea how the hell it got there.

Any tips on removing this grip?

[DHCJr]

It depends on what you have access to.

Do you have a heavy duty vise. If so the solution is easier. Leverage.

If the guard is still attached then you clamp right below the guard and used leverage. I am assuming this is not true.

You can clamp right at the base of the blade and use a big screwdriver and do the same thing.

Once you get it far enough (past the square part of the tang, start twisting the handle counter clockwise, this will allow the washer to go along the grooves.

There are probably other methods.

[erooMynohtnA]

Just smack it around. You'll jar it loose.

[damianip]

Your guard is broken?

Easy: put the blade in a vise (soft jaws if possible) with the guard below the jaws, take a hammer and a drift pin or punch, place next to the hole on the broken guard and whale on it until it drops off.

However, before doing so, take a look and see if the washer is wedged in there.

Paolo

[Palisadeur]

Or, if the handle isn't too important; stick the actual grip in the vice, point down, place a long bolt into the hole so it's resting on the end of the tang and bash it with a hammer.

Foam rubber or a pillow under where the point will hit the floor probably wouldn't be a bad idea either.

Ah, the repairs that can be done with a hammer...

[Palisadeur]

If it is REALLY stuck because of the glue you might want to dribble some solvent in there, but be prepared to rewire the blade (if it's electric) when the solvent goes right down and into the groove.

Hit with hammer first good ya hit!

[Cookeit]

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear.

The guard breaking was not the cause of the grip being stuck, it was stuck beforehand. When I said "this was fine until" I meant that it was fine because I had no reason to take it off.

[touchefriend]

Easy way if you have a vise mounted on a bench(or any proper height surface) so that the guard rests on top of vise jaws with the blade loose between the jaws. Use a small brass rod (or steel punch , but you may have to run a thread die over the tang, afterward) tap the rod or punch against the tang with a hammer and the blade should slide out.

[Mergs]

Easy way if you have a vise mounted on a bench(or any proper height surface) so that the guard rests on top of vise jaws with the blade loose between the jaws. Use a small brass rod (or steel punch , but you may have to run a thread die over the tang, afterward) tap the rod or punch against the tang with a hammer and the blade should slide out.

Couldn't have said it any clearer myself.

I guess it would clarify things a bit if you started off saying that you are replacing a broken guard and not a broken blade, in which case touchefriend's comment about chasing the threads to clean them up is valid, otherwise to heck with the condition of the threads after you hammer the blade out. IMHO, though, the threads shouldn't get damaged, unless it is the washer hanging it up (which I doubt), as the threads are harder than the grip. Also, I'd use the punch and not a brass rod. The rod end is more likely to mushroom.

[D'Art]

I'd try dynamite, or TNT personally.....

[Mergs]

C-4 would be a bit more controlable than TNT.

[Purple Fencer]

C-4 would be a bit more controlable than TNT.

But a tank round would definitely do the job...

[D'Art]

C-4 would be a bit more controlable than TNT.

TNT is far easier to make for someone who doesn't the chemical formula for C-4, though I do admit it looks more impressive everytime I've seen it on Mythbusters....

[erooMynohtnA]

C4 also requires pressure in addition to energy to detonate, so you're dealing with something far more complicated. You'll either need a detonation device like a blasting cap, which is going to be more than enough, or to somehow pack in a tiny amount and somehow deliver the energy to it by wire or det cord, which would be enough by itself.

You could manipulate TNT with much more finesse in this case. The best solution isn't necessarily the most sophisticated technology. America spent a million dollars developing a pen that could right in space. The Russians just used a pencil.

Or someone could use the giant explosives penis that they're trying to whip out and show everyone in this thread.

[Mergs]

America spent a million dollars developing a pen that could right in space. The Russians just used a pencil.

And so, where would the technical challenge be in that?!?!?!??? A pencil, sheese, how low tech can you get. And so what do you do with the shavings in 0-g when you have to resharpen it? Hmm?

[erooMynohtnA]

It might have been a grease pencil.

[migopod]

TNT is far easier to make for someone who doesn't the chemical formula for C-4, though I do admit it looks more impressive everytime I've seen it on Mythbusters....

I suggest TATP, since most armourers have at least one constituent reagent on hand most of the time.... and far more fingers than they really need.

[Palisadeur]

Or someone could use the giant explosives penis that they're trying to whip out and show everyone in this thread.

BOOM!

[Giant Explosive Penis Kills Thread Once And For All]

[migopod]

BOOM!

[Giant Explosive Penis Kills Thread Once And For All]

JFC! Someone update the out-of-context quote thread STAT!

[yearsofwisdom]

Czar-bomba?????