Remove the push-pins from an intel cooler.

[BuBu Shofronea]

How do i do it ? I'm trying it for almost half an hour and still didn't make it. I don't want to break them, so i want a method that will work to put them back aswell. Thx. in advance.

 

[StarChief]

Ahaha those are such a pain in the ass. Twist them into unlock position and pull. That retracts the pins that spread the arrow shaped anchors in the motherboard. Some wiggling also helps, do the process in reverse to put em back in

 

[BuBu Shofronea]

Ahaha those are such a pain in the ass. Twist them into unlock position and pull. That retracts the pins that spread the arrow shaped anchors in the motherboard. Some wiggling also helps, do the process in reverse to put em back in

no,no, man, i mean remove them entirely - removing the pins from the cooler's case. How do i do that ?

 

[StarChief]

Oh, I have no idea. Google it?

 

[BuBu Shofronea]

Oh, I have no idea. Google it?

Found only this : http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=215377 , but i don't understand a sh1t from it. I mean the only thing it says about it is to turn them into the clockwise position and then ends up, continuing with how to place them on idk what. Nothing else on google... need Google 2...

 

[dextermat]

Hi,

If they are not broken it's really hard to do it without breaking them. I use a flathead screwdriver to open up the black case to pop out the white pin.

Usually if they are already broken, you just need to pull on it.

 

[BuBu Shofronea]

Ok, Ok, ppl, found a way , FOUND A WAY !!!

First of all, push the pin to the anti-clockwise direction or to the arrow one. Then pull it up. Get something sharp like a knife. On the back of the top of the pin, like 90 degree direction, on the really back you will find a clamp - pull it a lil' bit up, but not too much so you won't break it and then, THEN, pull up the black screw. You will end up with the two pieces and something that's still holding them there. To get rid of that and finally pull out the push-pins, well, i still haven't found a way for that )). You can thank/swear/kill me later :*

 

[BuBu Shofronea]

ok, full GUIDE ( including the last missing part ) :


First of all, push the pin to the anti-clockwise direction or to the arrow one. Then pull it up. Get something sharp like a knife. On the back of the top of the pin, like 90 degree direction, on the really back you will find a clamp - pull it a lil' bit up, but not too much so you won't break it and then, THEN, pull up the black screw. You will end up with the two pieces and something that's still holding them there. To get rid of that and finally pull out the push-pins, rotate the black screw in the anti-clockwise direction and rotate it until the tiny little white head that's holding the two pieces will get below the "unvisible" side of the black screw. Then just pull up the white piece from the black one and you will end up with 2 undamaged* mdfkers.

*the white tiny head of the white screw might get his "head" ripped a bit, not at all, depends your luck. It's still usable even if it breaks cuz it won't break at all. I ended up with 1 of them ripped and the other 3 just a bit cutted. Good luck !

 

[bharath1097]

Thanks. Had to replace a broken push pin on Deepcool Gammax 400 cooler and this advice helped me out a lot.