What boards are you removing the gold plated pins from? Many boards will be seriously devalued if you remove the pins. I don't removed pins from nearly any boards but especially mother boards, hard drive boards, PCI boards, cd/dvd boards.
Were do I remove gold plated pins? Connectors are the almost the only thing I pull the pins out of. The exception has been really low grade boards that just happen to have gold plated pins.
When my wife and I pull the pins from IDE connectors we use small-ish side cutter aka diagonal cutters. In fact they are the cheap blue handle ones that we buy at Harbor Freight.
Good luck, Mike
ps I guess Mech hit the send the button first so I do agree with him. Mike
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