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Cutting a stuck shackle pin with a zip disc after my hammer trick failed
Spent 40 minutes in 30 feet of murky water at the Bremerton dock last Tuesday trying to drift out a seized shackle pin with a hammer, and what finally worked was swimming up to the truck for a 5 inch zip disc and slicing a flat on the pin so a wrench could grab it, so has anyone else had luck with that or do you just cut the whole shackle off and eat the cost?
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williams.diana7h ago
Skipping the wrench trick and just cutting the whole shackle off makes more sense to me, since a sliced pin can still fight you and you've lost the shackle either way. Why mess with a half fix when a full cut gets you back on the boat faster?
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