Remove Door Hinge Pin Cap

Tap upward on the bottom end of the hinge pin with a nailset or awl and a hammer.

Remove door hinge pin cap.

Taking a hammer and your hex tool or nail gently ram the pin upwards. Interior door hinges have both a cap on the top and a cap on the bottom was planning on greasing down the door hinges since they sqeak but when i brought over my hammer and nailset to hit the pin out from the bottom of the hinges i realized every hinge had a cap on the bottom. Then use your hammer to push the nail punch up and under the pin until it dislodges. Simply spray the lubricant into the gaps under the hinge cap the hinge bottom.

Force the pin up from the door hinge. When it comes to removing a door hinge pin there are 2 ways to go about it. The hinge pin has a cap on both top and bottom the caps are attached. I can t use a nail to drive the pin up through the hinge because the bottom cap is too big to fit through the hing in.

First the door isn t stuck closed it won t close the bottom drags on the floor before it can get to a closed position. If the hinge pin continues to resist easy removal a few squirts of household lubricant will likely help ease it out. Second the hinges don t look like the one on my door. Wrong way to remove a hinge pins the wrong way involves using an old nail or screwdriver with a hammer.

If so unscrewing it from the jamb or hinge is the only way to take the door down. Circled in red are two pins or screws look at both sides see if there is a way to unscrew them. It looks like a fixed pin hinge with security caps on both ends. None of that video helps me.

Tap the screwdriver with a hammer to extract the pin from. Raise the hinge pin s top cap to approximately 1 4 inch above the hinge loops. To remove a door hinge pin start by making sure you have a hammer a screwdriver and a nail punch or nail set. Sliding books underneath the crack in the door will give the door a surface to sit on while you remove the pins.

Then gently tap the vice grip until the bottom cap comes off. Remove the hinge s threaded pin security plug at the bottom of each hinge pin space using a 3 32 inch allen wrench. Next lodge a book under the door to keep it from toppling over while you unpin it.