On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:14:36 -0800, Rich Grise
wrote:

There's a bin with some aluminum cutoffs with hard steel bushings and
Keenserts inserts in them. I can just press out the bushings, but is
there a less wasteful way of getting the keenserts out without breaking
too much stuff, or should I just go ahead and press them out, and to
heck with the aluminum that gets entrained in the threads?

It's for recycling, and I have lots of spare time here, so "how long
it takes" isn't a consideration, but there is no budget for new tools.

Meanwhile, the PHB is shopping around for a scrapper who will take
aluminum with all that crap in it - I figure I can make his job a
little easier - take out the steel and whatever keenserts are made
of, and get full scrap price for the aluminum. :-)

(and maybe save the bushings in the "misc. hard steel" bin. ;-))

Thanks!
Rich
Left hand drill bits. If they come out, good. If not you drill them
out. BIG difference in scrap price from "dirty" to "clean"