Will a claw hammer work as a makeshift "wedge puller?"

[Crow-Feather]

100 years ago, folks could just go sit on a stump & think out an answer for themselves. Seems today we're losing that ability.

Awww, gives me something to read and chuckle over.

 

[toot]

TOTW has a brass wedge punch - just for grins I ordered one. It's a neat little tool that lets you gently tap the wedge out.
I filed a notch on one side of mine and use that to knap a flint while in the lock.
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just curious, what was the price? I rely like the looks of it. I didn't know that such a devise existed? I took a wooden dowel and filed down one end to a wedge and use that it also works great.

 

[toot]

I tried that once but they melted before I got to the point where I needed the stick.....

also being as thin as they are that they would not stand up to any force applied to a thin stick?

 

[toot]

All I have to say is - "BUBBA TOOL" used by "BUBBA"

I am in agreement with you.

 

[Griz44Mag]

just curious, what was the price? I rely like the looks of it. I didn't know that such a devise existed? I took a wooden dowel and filed down one end to a wedge and use that it also works great.

It has been a few years since I bought it. IIRC - I bought it through TOTW.
https://www.trackofthewolf.com/List/Item.aspx/117/1

 

[Mark Herman]

I have a file that I cut to about 6" and the tail to about 1.5". The tail is ground into a wedge punch and the file for sights etc. Goes right in the shooting box.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

TC used to include a combination wedge pin puller and nipple wrench with their rifles. Now sellers want big bucks for that tool:

https://rmcoxyoke.com/product/wedge-pin-puller/
Buy yourself a tack puller at Ace Hardware or ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/i/252427486600...1291&msclkid=95df94e5160817b52fa9cba48a9e92eb

That tool looks like a great way to mar a nice stock.

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

A hammer is not the method! I use a piece of hardwood. A half of a clothespin works, but I like something longer for my feeble fingers to grab. Squeezing the barrel and stock together as mentioned earlier is also a help.
Flintlocklar

 

[Okie Hog]

That tool looks like a great way to mar a nice stock.

My hunting rifles get used, scratched and dinged and i could care less. When using the tool on a masterpiece of gunmakers art simply put i piece of cloth under the thing.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

My hunting rifles get used, scratched and dinged and i could care less.

Well...mine don't and I use them with care and affection.

 

[Greg Blackburn]

No worries guys, I just pulled the wedge out, cut the slot off, and now put the barrel back into the stock with black tape.

No stumps around here.....thanks for all the suggestions.

 

[Griz44Mag]

No worries guys, I just pulled the wedge out, cut the slot off, and now put the barrel back into the stock with black tape.

No stumps around here.....thanks for all the suggestions.

There's always gotta be one in the crowd!

 

[Dale Lilly]

I think a claw hammer, used as you would for pulling nails, would likely scratch up your escutcheon plates and probably dent the wood. It would probably work, but I wouldn't use it.

I think you are better off driving the wedge out, either with a commercial brass tool like the one in post #3, or improvise one of hardwood or plastic. I have used a "leg" from a spring-type wooden clothespin, whittled down a bit as needed, and it worked well.

I would not use a clawhammer for tapping on the drift, either. A wood, rubber, plastic, or rawhide mallet would be the right tool for that job.

It's a lot easier to prevent dents than to fix them.

Good luck!

Notchy Bob

Love that clothespin idea. Thanks. Polecat

 

[Tanglefoot]

I built the carriage for my small cannon out of hard Red Oak. There were scraps and trimmings left over, and I tossed all the chunks bigger'n my thumb into a "Someday" box on the theory that someday I might need them again. Took one of the small scraps and trimmed it down with a jackknife and then a file to make a wooden wedge about 2-1/2 inches long and tapered to one end small enough to fit into the wedge plate slots on both of the rifles that use wedges and a couple of the pistols too. It even works for starting the barrel wedge of a caplock revolver.
Works fine for taping out steel or brass wedges, doesn't chew up any of the surrounding real estate, and weighs almost nothing. I carry it in my little tin box of rifle tools in my hunting pouch. Don't need a hammer or a mallet --- I just tap it with the butt end of my knife handle, but a chunk of fire wood or a small stone would serve.

 

[hawkeye2]

 

[Tanglefoot]

That'd get her done, Hawkeye! Looks like you could pull railroad spikes with it too, `specially if you extended the handle for leverage.

 

[Greg Blackburn]

There's always gotta be one in the crowd!

LOL. My dad's neighbor did that with his mailbox. Duct taped it to the mounting pole. It's held up a few years so far.

I greatly appreciate all the replies and suggestions and love to converse with good people, be that online or otherwise. I may end up getting a TC puller but plan to do something like the clothes pin for now. Thank ya'll so much!

 

[azmntman]

Have used the ram rod end on occasion myself, pry n pull

 

[Griz44Mag]

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No Hawkeye - just well... NO..........

 

[mooman76]

LOL. My dad's neighbor did that with his mailbox. Duct taped it to the mounting pole. It's held up a few years so far.

I greatly appreciate all the replies and suggestions and love to converse with good people, be that online or otherwise. I may end up getting a TC puller but plan to do something like the clothes pin for now. Thank ya'll so much!

Ah, inside joke. I actually duct taped a side mirror on my car. Hard to come by and it worked until summer when the weather warmed. Then I glued it with a Bu## load of hot glue and it held for years.