How to remove PVA glued hammers. ( With electric shank pliers. )

[Ron Nossaman]

>      Also heating them ( the shanks by the joint ) up.
>  PVA softens with heat:  just not as easily as hide
> glue. 

Yet again, we seem to live in different universes. Hot hide 
glue in my universe doesn't soften with dry heat, however 
often I've wished it were so. What's your secret?

Ron N