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    Thumbs down Push-on nuts drive me nutz!!!

    I hate these little push-on nuts...



    I run into them all the time when trying to remove fascia and name plates from tray panels. Does anyone know any "secret" way to remove them without damaging the tiny plastic posts they are used on? When I try I usually bugger-up the post and the fastener both.

    Appreciate any/all solutions to removing these vexing little buggers.

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    Default Re: Push-on nuts drive me nutz!!!

    I use a small pair of nippers - I just lift a edge and slip in the cutter and cut them - didn't say it s easy
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    Default Re: Push-on nuts drive me nutz!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by d mowery View Post
    I use a small pair of nippers - I just lift a edge and slip in the cutter and cut them - didn't say it s easy

    Then the next question I have is... are new ones of these available at local hardware stores? Before I cut them I guess I'll have to see if replacements are available.

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    Quote Originally Posted by d mowery View Post
    I use a small pair of nippers - I just lift a edge and slip in the cutter and cut them - didn't say it s easy
    that is the best way to remove them.that is what i do at work when faced with those buggers.i believe they are available at hardware stores,or through auto parts stores,where we get ours.

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    Default Re: Push-on nuts drive me nutz!!!

    Ace Hardware in my area carries replacements, as well as those "leaping" 'E' clips that always disappear after I remove them.
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    Default Re: Push-on nuts drive me nutz!!!

    great ideas. I stopped trying to remove the push-on nuts after I broke two posts off on my nishijin...

    is there a special tool for E clips? they like to fly at my house, too, ... in fact, just yesterday, I had to crawl around on the floor to find the ones off the hokoku

    I figured there must be a trick?
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    I use a thin screwdriver to get e clips off and try to catch them as they go flying

    and i usually try to pop them on while holding them in needlenose pliers
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    small needle nose pliers and a small towel... (ie a red shop rag)

    as far as puting them back on... i use a small good quality flat blade screwdriver that has been magnatized.. and pliers if nessary... but usualy just the screwdriver
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    Default Re: Push-on nuts drive me nutz!!!

    I also used a needle nose pliers and a very small blade (jeweler's) screwdriver to pry the tabs away from the posts. Then flatten them (the tabs) back out before replacing them on the posts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bill812 View Post
    I also used a needle nose pliers and a very small blade (jeweler's) screwdriver to pry the tabs away from the posts. Then flatten them (the tabs) back out before replacing them on the posts.
    this is the method I use
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    Quote Originally Posted by luckydog View Post
    I use a thin screwdriver to get e clips off and try to catch them as they go flying

    and i usually try to pop them on while holding them in needlenose pliers


    At Work we affectionately call those "Jesus clips" because its what most people say when they go flying across the room when removed
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    Default Re: Push-on nuts drive me nutz!!!

    I have a magnet on a stick. Hold the mag near the clip and pry it off.
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    Default Re: Push-on nuts drive me nutz!!!

    I bend up one side so one is facing up and one down, then grab it with a pair of needle nose vise grips. Pull up and twist, the "splines" will carve a set of "threads" as it goes. To put back on flatten and push on with a bit of brass tubing.

    Note: You only want to do this once.

    Having found them in my local hardware store(called Spring nut or Flat nut) I think I may go with cut and replace.

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    Default Re: Push-on nuts drive me nutz!!!

    E clips!!

    We used to sell tools at the hobby store for installing e clips, although I never tried one..

    My trick was just to always have bags of extra e clips!!

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    Thumbs up Re: Push-on nuts drive me nutz!!!

    I just found out that I need a smaller and sharper pair of nippers to get these round push-on nuts cut like suggested. My little flush cut nippers had a hard time cutting these things cut but I prevailed.


    Went to the hardware store and they only had these types of push-on nuts


    They work great and when installed they have a little bit of a bridge gap in the middle so working a screwdriver or pair of nippers under them in the future will be easier then the old round type.

    Thanks to all for the suggestions on how to tackle this problem. No more broken posts ! (I hope)

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    Exclamation Re: Push-on nuts drive me nutz!!!

    I can't figure out how to edit my previous post, so here is an addendum to that post.

    If you decide to use these

    Make sure you get the light guage ones (thin) because they also have some that are made of thicker metal and these are way too hard to press on without damaging the plastic posts.

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    Those rectangular ones are called "Speed Nuts".

    A lot of postwar Zenith portable radios used those little bast*rds, and I always had at least one plastic post shatter when trying to remove them.

    A long time ago, I got hold of a course on repairing transistor radios, and they showed a picture of a tool specially designed to remove them. The business end looked like a tight-wound spring. I guess you pressed it down onto the speed nut and twisted until the coil grabbed hold of each finger. Then you could lift the nut off safely.

    Can't say I've ever saw one of these tools in person, though...
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    This concept is intriguing... it appears from your discription that using a spring with the inside diameter the same size of the plastic post the nut is on could be twisted unto the post and that continued rotation of the spring would pass through the speed nuts "fingers" and lift the nut off and if one just kept rotating the spring it would screwjack the speednut off.
    I never thought of this but it seems a very plausible answer to the problem. I will have to try this. I think a ballpoint pen spring would fit the plastic posts that I last worked with on my Maruto pachinko.

    Many thanks for bringing up this method.

    Quote Originally Posted by batterymaker View Post
    Those rectangular ones are called "Speed Nuts".

    A lot of postwar Zenith portable radios used those little bast*rds, and I always had at least one plastic post shatter when trying to remove them.

    A long time ago, I got hold of a course on repairing transistor radios, and they showed a picture of a tool specially designed to remove them. The business end looked like a tight-wound spring. I guess you pressed it down onto the speed nut and twisted until the coil grabbed hold of each finger. Then you could lift the nut off safely.

    Can't say I've ever saw one of these tools in person, though...

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    It wasn't a thin coilspring. It was rather thick, from what I remember in the photograph.

    Almost forgot--the other name for those fasteners were Tinnerman Nuts.
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