Mark: Hope your recovery from the firecracker goes well. The freezer is the wrong place to put the parts if you want to disassemble them. By freezing the parts you make the parts smaller. And consequently the clearance or possibly in this case interference tighter. Freezing would be good in the case of the pin but the shaft is a different story because of thermal expansion the fit actually gets tighter when chilled. So ideally you would heat the shaft and freeze the pin(remember for reassembly) The proper place is the oven assuming that there are no plastic parts left on the shaft. You would be safe warming it to about 350F then carefully removing from oven and using (preferably) a brass drift and wooden v-blocks to attempt to drive the pin out. This would be a good place for a helper to hold with insulating gloves or better yet clamp it. I use a set of brass jaws in a vise for this, with a v-cut for shafts. Good Luck. Ian
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