The Right Tool for the Right Job Revisited

[Ron Nossaman]

This brings up another question, or maybe the same one. I've tried all 
sorts of things when de-stringing. I've cut them at the counter bearing and 
pulled them straight up off of the pins (lots of sparks and shrapnel and 
too hard on the wrists), clipped the beckets with a hollow punch (the loose 
pieces are still in the pin and eternally resist me lifting the coil off of 
the pin), cut the string at the coil and backed the pins coil and all out 
with the drill (this isn't bad), spun the pins out without cutting 
anything, depending on the becket to break by itself (more sparks, 
occasional terrifying and painful surprises [not recommended]), cut the 
wire somewhere between becket and agraffe and pried the becket and coil off 
with the modified screwdriver (which is what I seem to come back to).

I know the preferred method is to have a sacrificial shop slave do it, but 
what do the rest of you do when you have to do your own work?
Ron N