pulling brass pins off 220v cords

I haven't tried this yet but somebody posted that if you cut the plug off and put it in a pot of boilling water for a few minutes the brass pins will losen up and you can just pull them out. If you try this please post on here how it worked out for you.

Originally Posted by happyscraper

I haven't tried this yet but somebody posted that if you cut the plug off and put it in a pot of boilling water for a few minutes the brass pins will losen up and you can just pull them out. If you try this please post on here how it worked out for you.

I agree and haven't tried it yet either... but the yard guy I deal with at my scrap yard does some of his own scrapping too... he has one of those electric frying pans and fills it with water and throws them in it to soften the plastic... he does this with stove and dryer plugs