"Jethro_uk" wrote in message
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On Thu, 09 May 2019 16:08:53 +0100, dennis@home wrote:

On 09/05/2019 14:53, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Thu, 09 May 2019 13:33:29 +0100, Jim K.. wrote:

Any tips on how to get them out without making more mess of the
timber?

When hit backwards they just bend, the heads are firmly stuck :-(

Tried punching back out after the pointy end metal fatigued off
leaving the embedded nail flush but can't get it moving!

TIA

FiL had a tool for doing this. No idea what it was called, but it was
tubular with something in one end of the tube. Apparently it was for
pulling nails out of architraves. Whatever it was, it was *old* -
certainly pre-war, if not pre-1900. Father-to-son jobbie.

Never seen a modern version.


You can get a good grip if you have a tapered hole with some ball
bearings in, you pop it over the nail and it will grip really well while
you lever it up.

This thing had some sort of angled claw.

Yeah, I remember one of those my dad had, from his dad.

FiLs father was a painter and decorator if that helps.