They do NOT protrude on the other side.
EDIT: I should have mentioned that I WAS able to pry some of them out. It was just super difficult.
Use this type of hammer and pull with claw side.
yea jam the claw in there and pull the hammer to the side, like you are laying it down against the wood surface. the edge of the claw will grip the softer metal when you tilt it sideways, and the handle of the hammer will act as a lever. one time i shit my pants for no reason
Needle nose pliers or dykes
Dykes?
They mean diagonal cutters or flush cutters. Dyke is an unfortunate shortening of diagonal here, there is no actual relationship to the slur afaik.
I think you said pliers weren’t doing the job. Grab them with vice grips (locking pliers) and use the claw side of a hammer to pull them off like a nail.
That is smart AF
Those look like brads to me. They may have been glued brads. I use channel lock pliers to pull them out. The curved jaw gives good leverage.
This is exactly what I used. Worked perfect.
Brilliant! I actually have exactly this. Cheers!
I’d just grab em with some pliers. Maybe needlenose depending on how small and how the space is.
They have stubbornly defeated my plier-based efforts
Maybe try some vice grips?
Use another tool to act as a fulcrum so you can use the pliers as a lever
What if you were to use a hammer also? Like, use it like you would to remove a nail, but put a pair of vice grips right above the claw to keep it from just sliding
Is it possible that they are brads from a nail gun? Are there tiny marks on the opposite side? Those nails don’t have heads you can grip, but you wouldn’t be able to pull them through.
If so, you may be able to push them back where they came from using the pliers.
There is absolutely no sign of them on the other side
Ok so we know what is not there on the other side… what is there on the other side?
I use needle nose pliers, grab the brad as close to the hinge as possible and flat against the board. Then, grab tight and use the tip of the pliers as a fulcrum.
Needle nose pliers
Pair of linesman pliers or needle nose vise grips a block of something to create leverage and use that lever.
Angle grinder will take care of those in seconds!
Found the boilermaker.
Yeah, if having the cutoff bits of metal in the wood isn’t a problem, I’ve done the same thing with an oscillating tool with a metal saw
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Straighten them out. Cut them leaving no less than 1/4". Then hammer them through the other side. Then use your channel locks to pull them out.
I’ve saved hundreds of sheets of plywood doing this.
Probably too late but at this point I would suggest just worrying them back and forth or just snip them and then hammer or file em flat. Those look like 18g narrow crown staples to me and any version of pulling them means you have a much higher chance of damaging the board a little.
I always use end nippers. They look like something a horse farrier would use to trim hooves. They have a round face so you can grab at the base of the nail and rock it back with ease. Nothing I have found beats them for speed and ease of use when you’re pulling nails/staples through the back of wood.
If you want to do minimal damage, try backing them out the front side with vice grips like another commenter suggested.
They aren’t at all visible on the front if they are even there. I don’t think they even come through on the front. I’m definitely adding the nippers to my list.
If they really are staples snip one leg off before trying to pull the other through with vice grips or a levering technique others suggested. But how can they be staples with the bar not showing on the other side? Is this panel 2 laminated panels?
If pliers didn’t do the job, I would cut them at the base and sand them down to be smooth and flush with the wood.
Looks like cramps, because they look like pairs here. You can only pull them from the other side.
If you can’t grab them, lift them up on this side first and push them back a little.
I’d call them crown staples. Putting vise grips on the end to keep it straight and tapping it with a hammer can work sometimes to get it through the other side. Pulling it straight through this side will probably damage the wood. Probably pest to just cut them flush and move on.
I think you’re right, I encountered these once and ended up breaking them off at the surface because I couldn’t pull them through, even with vice grips. That looks like real wood too
Sometimes the wood closes over them after the last sanding when assembled.
A Dremel would cut those out nicely.
