"Rod" wrote in message
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I have got an ordinary office chair. One of the castors broke but the
distributor (dpauk.net) has quite efficiently sent me a set of castors (all
five). (I write "quite" as they first sent out a set of the wrong castors.
But both sets have been sent for free which is pretty good - the chair is a
fairly low cost model.)

But I cannot see a way of removing the "spike" part of the broken castor.
I think you can see clearly what I mean in this pictu

http://www.vrod.co.uk/chair.jpg

I tried pulling it out using pliers - but it seems to be extremely firmly
fixed. The new castors have the "spike" already inserted into them. The
bit that sticks up from the new castor has a metal circlip-like object on
it. Any ideas?

Mole grips, big hammer, brute force.

New one goes in quite easily







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