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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_]

fired this volley in
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That would be my suggestion.. Clamp the gun so the pin is forced
against either a countersink or another drill bit. Using a drill bit
on both sides, one end or the other (or both) will be drilled out
enough to release the pin.

That's not only how it 'would be' done, that's very often how it IS done.
One of my prior bosses had a block set up to accept any one of about a
dozen different stub-length drills for just that sort of job.

The other way (on with things that don't care about heat) is to weld or
braze an extension onto the pin, and vise the extension.

Lloyd