Do as you may but I would caution aganist hammering the hinge pins out unless they are only being held by the serations and loose enough to move with relativly light tapping. If you have ever set a rivet you can understand what I mean. Sharp blows from a hammer on a tight pin in almost any situation can expand the column of metal and actually make it tighter. This can even happen with a hardened pin since most of the time it is only a case a few thousands of an inch thick.
I'm a firm believer in pressing pins out in a bench press, an inexpensive item now days since Harbor Freight and others came on the scene with cheap jacks and frames.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
