Roll pin removal

[SHOZ]

I have a key that fit my car smart key fob and I need to remove the blank and put my cut one on the head of the physical door key.

But the key insert is held in the head with a roll pin and it is only open to one side.

How would be the best way to get it out trying to save it for reuse?

 

[DemoFly]

I would drill it out and then peen a rivet.

 

[JC1]

Originally Posted By: DemoFly
I would drill it out and then peen a rivet.


+1.

 

[SHOZ]

That's some hard steel or whatever I'm drilling into. The shell is aluminum.

 

[kschachn]

I don't think you are going to drill that out. On my BMW the shift latch on the wooden knob is held on by a blind roll pin, the only way it can be removed is to pull it out. There are such tools to do so but the price for one was more than a rebuilt part from BMW. I'm going to assume they have the puller to repair them.

If you can get something jammed into the pin and you can get leverage to pull it out then you might have a chance. Either that or drill out the other side and push it through if you can.

 

[DemoFly]

Originally Posted By: SHOZ
That's some hard steel or whatever I'm drilling into. The shell is aluminum.

Drill the other side of the shell, push roll pin out with roll pin punch.

 

[mk378]

Yes, roll pins are very hard metal. Forget drilling through one. Punch it out.

 

[SHOZ]

The roll pin got chewed down by the bit quite easily. It's whatever it's seated in and holding the key blank in. It's only a 3/32" bit.

 

[bdcardinal]

They do many special roll pin punches. I have a set for building AR's. On Ford keys we can punch the pin all the way through, if this one is a blind hole it might be worth drilling it out carefully.

 

[Trav]

Originally Posted By: SHOZ
The roll pin got chewed down by the bit quite easily. It's whatever it's seated in and holding the key blank in. It's only a 3/32" bit.





That may be an allen head screw, it may be the picture but it looks like it has 6 sides.

 

[The_Eric]

It doesn't look uniform enough for a roll pin. Perhaps a peened over rivet?

 

[andyd]

I think it is a rivet, not an allen screw. I didn't see any indication of the gap that a roll pin has. To OP, switch to a smaller bit to begin with.