user71575: What's your suggested technique for reliably removing Arduino Due and Mega shields while minimizing the chance of bending the strip header pins?
For example, there's a similar discussion here where the asker ended up building a jig to keep everything parallel, but the main PCB was screwed down into the jig (a disadvantage). There is a heap of PCB Pullers/Extractors on the web, but they all seem to relate to edge connected cards.
I'm hoping for multiple answers / techniques. Interested to hear how you do it, or for you to upvote an answer you like. Maybe everybody is just doing the best they can with finger wriggling and manual pin straightening?

user71575: It's an indirect answer to my original question, but having made a number of Due/Mega shields over the year or so since then, I've started making the side pins ~3mm longer than the double row end pins. This helps.


user40318: You could modify a couple of wooden clothes pegs to act as reverse pliers.

(source: niceshops.com)

71575: <p>What's your suggested technique for reliably removing Arduino Due and Mega shields while minimizing the chance of bending the <a href="https://www.arduino.cc/documents/datasheets/Strip40x1.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">strip header pins</a>?</p>
<p>For example, there's a similar discussion <a href="https://talk.dallasmakerspace.org/t/how-to-remove-a-shield-cape-head-without-bending-pins-arduino-like/4293" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> where the asker ended up building a jig to keep everything parallel, but the main PCB was screwed down into the jig (a disadvantage). There is a heap of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=pcb+extractor&amp;tbm=isch&amp;ved=2ahUKEwieoZSo_rHuAhVu53MBHSUsCPUQ2-cCegQIABAA&amp;oq=pcb+extractor&amp;gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzICCAA6BAgAEEM6BggAEAgQHjoECAAQGFD4qQhY2bIIYLK6CGgAcAB4AIABtQGIAbgLkgEDMC45mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&amp;sclient=img&amp;ei=PQ0MYN6OFO7Oz7sPpdigqA8&amp;bih=1250&amp;biw=2415&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU934AU934&amp;safe=off" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PCB Pullers/Extractors</a> on the web, but they all seem to relate to edge connected cards.</p>
<p>I'm hoping for multiple answers / techniques. Interested to hear how you do it, or for you to upvote an answer you like. Maybe everybody is just doing the best they can with finger wriggling and manual pin straightening?</p>
 71575: <p>It's an indirect answer to my original question, but having made a number of Due/Mega shields over the year or so since then, I've started making the side pins ~3mm longer than the double row end pins. This helps.</p>
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 40318: <p>You could modify a couple of wooden clothes pegs to act as reverse pliers.</p>
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<sub>(source: <a href="https://cdn-bo.niceshops.com/upload/image/product/large/default/buerstenhaus-redecker-wooden-clothes-pegs-with-coil-spring-20-pieces-loose-191199-en.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">niceshops.com</a>)</sub></p>
