I am re-arranging the shelves in an old bookcase, and I’m having trouble removing a few broken shelf pins inside the holes I want to use. They don’t protrude enough for me to get any kind of grip with the needle-nose pliers that I used to take out the other pins.

The shelf pins are this style. Quarter inch diameter. Not sure what kind of metal they’re made out of. The pin itself is hollow, which rules out most of the common solutions for this kind of problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions for how to remove these?

  • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Superglue something to it, wait for it to dry, and then pull?

    Or give up on that hole and drill another one just next to it. Should still work and be pretty nearly unnoticeable.

    There are quite a few good ideas in this thread, though. Could try those before giving up on actually extracting it.