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Spent 6 hours fighting a stuck drift pin, turns out it was my hammer angle
Last Tuesday I was trying to pull a rusted drift pin out of a trailer hitch I was fixing up, and after 6 hours of soaking it in penetrating oil and beating on it with a sledge, I finally realized I was hitting it at a 10 degree upward angle the whole time. Once I squared up my swing and gave it one good solid whack from straight on, it popped right out like it was never stuck. Has anyone else had a job where the fix was just adjusting your own stance or swing instead of changing tools?
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robert_roberts20d ago
Six hours man, that's rough lol. But honestly this happens to me way more than I want to admit, you get so locked in on the tool or the method that you never stop and check if your own body is the problem. I spent like two hours once trying to get a bolt off with a breaker bar and my whole issue was I was standing at a dumb angle and couldn't get any real leverage. Soon as I moved my feet and got my weight behind it, that thing came loose in like ten seconds. The worst part is you can't even be mad at the pin or the bolt, you just gotta be mad at yourself for being an idiot for six hours straight. Glad it popped out for you though, that first whack after you fix your stance always feels amazing.
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