So I'm sure its come up before, but as a routesetters forum it seems appropriate to discuss strategies for removing spinners.
What is your preferred method, and why?
Personally I've employed several strategies:
- Hole saw: cut a plug around the tnut in question leaving a tnut sized hold in the wall for patching.
Pro: fast as the dickens.
Con: Leaves 2 finger pockets all over your wall.
- 2 Man vice grip method (2MVGM) Self Explanatory.
Pro: Minimal wall and hold damage, restores the order.
Con: pain in the ass. (dust boogers, crawl space syndrome, slippage, doest work sometimes)
- Crow bar method. Take a crow bar and rip the fudger out from the front.
Pro: fast, releases frustration, dont need to go behind the wall and climb up 40 ft on 2x4s
Con: you just ripped a tnut through 3/4" ply and texture and have a hole of varying sizes for someone to patch.
- Hold smash Method ( smash the hold method)
Pro: somewhat fast, get to release frustration on crappy holds.
Con: you're smashing holds.
- Uber complex Screw through tnut into hold method.* Take some screws, go behind the wall, put screws through tnut, through wall, into back of hold. Go to front of wall, take t-wrench + extended lever (pipe) and turn really hard. ( The screws fix the hold and tnut together, to the all, giving extra holding strength in sheared ply/chip board)
Pro: minimizes wall damage, one man operation
Con: tedious, sometimes doesnt work, damages hold.
* only really works with screw on t-nuts.
Most commonly we practice the Crow bar method as it is fast and doesn't require more people or getting down from the wall. The walls are patched with texture regularly and plywood + tnut patches are installed regularly. Not the prettiest, but surely the easiest.