<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — How to Remove Pressed-in Nut from New Aluminum Platform]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/4634/how-to-remove-pressedin-nut-from-new-aluminum-platform/ Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:52:32 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: How to Remove Pressed-in Nut from New Aluminum Platform]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/42337/#p42337 Rotate it with vice grips, came out pretty easily for me.

]]> Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:52:32 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/42337/#p42337 <![CDATA[Re: How to Remove Pressed-in Nut from New Aluminum Platform]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/42299/#p42299 Thanks for the link.   Unfortunately I already had the printer disassembled and I couldn't print the plastic piece.  BUt I kept working the nut with my vice grips and eventually started to give, and I got it out.

Thanks for all the help.

]]> Sat, 23 Nov 2013 07:05:10 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/42299/#p42299 <![CDATA[Re: How to Remove Pressed-in Nut from New Aluminum Platform]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/42291/#p42291 http://www.soliforum.com/topic/2990/bos … -consumer/

]]> Sat, 23 Nov 2013 05:27:09 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/42291/#p42291 <![CDATA[How to Remove Pressed-in Nut from New Aluminum Platform]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/42290/#p42290 I just got a new aluminum platform as a replacement for the original wood one.  I want to put my ballscrew on this, but I can't remove that pressed in nut no matter how hard I try.

I mean, I could get a pry bar or breaker bar, but I don't want to warp the frame.  I tried to rotate it, I  tried to wiggle it back an forth, nothing.  It just won't budge.

Has anyone removed that yet, if so how?

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