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So I always find the right tool makes a job a whole lot easier. As evidenced by my collection of tools in the basement (sometimes price does make the right tool unobtainable - no matter how useful I might find a cnc machine... the wife says no)
Anyway I recently sleeved my PSU and found the double bent staples to simply rock at removing the 24 pin - PCIe pins etc... but I found it to really fail when it came to pulling the 4 pins out of the molex plugs. Being impatient, cheap and fairly handy I decided to make my own.
Materials needed:
1 Nail - sorry I don't know the size, it was one from a group that's box has long since been thrown away.
2 dremmel/hacksaw/file etc...
3 drill with 7/64 drill bit
4 a little oil (you are drilling metal...)
5 bench vice - or other such device to keep the nail in place
Step 1: Throw the nail in your vice
Step 2: cut off the tip of the nail - I like to file down the cut edge a little bit
Step 3: Using you drill - drill into the axis of the nail as close to center as you can - remembering to use some oil to save your bit
Step 4: Remove those pesky pins!
quick and easy - took me longer to make the post than it did to make the tool. Sorry for the crap pictures.
Anyway I recently sleeved my PSU and found the double bent staples to simply rock at removing the 24 pin - PCIe pins etc... but I found it to really fail when it came to pulling the 4 pins out of the molex plugs. Being impatient, cheap and fairly handy I decided to make my own.
Materials needed:
1 Nail - sorry I don't know the size, it was one from a group that's box has long since been thrown away.
2 dremmel/hacksaw/file etc...
3 drill with 7/64 drill bit
4 a little oil (you are drilling metal...)
5 bench vice - or other such device to keep the nail in place

Step 1: Throw the nail in your vice

Step 2: cut off the tip of the nail - I like to file down the cut edge a little bit
Step 3: Using you drill - drill into the axis of the nail as close to center as you can - remembering to use some oil to save your bit


Step 4: Remove those pesky pins!

quick and easy - took me longer to make the post than it did to make the tool. Sorry for the crap pictures.