Removing Side Rails For Painting???

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Hi Guys,

What have you found is the easiest and least damaging way to remove
side rails from your older pins in order to prep for repainting?

I know some of you just paint around the side rails, but I would like
to remove mine in order to repaint the entire cabinet.

I actually have several cabinets that will be repainted. These are late
'70s and early '80s Ballys.

Thanks so much!
Tim

 

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It's pretty amazing what you can find when you remember to google, lol.

Sorry for the duplicate question.

Tim

 

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I use needle nose pliers, small nail head pullers, shim stock wood to
lever against and anything handy that works. Some damage around the
nailheads is going to happen, I use auto body hammers and dowels to
reform any significant damage.

K2

 

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I use a puddy knife to get under metal, then I use a small pair of vice
grips and grab the nail inbetween the teeth and twist to left
(counterclockwise) to remove nail. Im able to save all twist nails;
buffem up and good to go...

 

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I'm all for thrift and saving, but I find some of the edges twist a little
bit so I do the same but spend the $3 on new nails.

GRY

"Grojohn" <carniello@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1119581838.541472.132990@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I use a puddy knife to get under metal, then I use a small pair of vice
> grips and grab the nail inbetween the teeth and twist to left
> (counterclockwise) to remove nail. Im able to save all twist nails;
> buffem up and good to go...
>