oldschoolcraft
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I am helping a friend prepare a room in their house to convert from carpet to tiles. There was a bunch of nails in the concrete foundation / flooring under the carpet to secure the carpet. A few of them were too hard to remove with nail pullers and I needed big boy knipex cobras. There's one straggler that I cannot pull out for the life of me. Tried a few different pliers and also Knipex Cobolts.
I used it as an excuse to buy Knipex End Nippers and I couldn't cut it with that. Maybe I'm too weak or what remains of the nail is too small for the nippers to get leverage on it.
My next best guess is to try a cold chisel with a hammer but I'm afraid I'm going to wind up chipping the concrete flooring. I also have an M12 Fuel Die Grinder that's new to me but haven't bought any attachments yet.
What's the correct tool for this? The exposed nail surface only has around maybe 1/16" to 1/8" left, some of it cracked off during the plier-ing efforts. It's pretty close to the wall which adds some issues.
I used it as an excuse to buy Knipex End Nippers and I couldn't cut it with that. Maybe I'm too weak or what remains of the nail is too small for the nippers to get leverage on it.
My next best guess is to try a cold chisel with a hammer but I'm afraid I'm going to wind up chipping the concrete flooring. I also have an M12 Fuel Die Grinder that's new to me but haven't bought any attachments yet.
What's the correct tool for this? The exposed nail surface only has around maybe 1/16" to 1/8" left, some of it cracked off during the plier-ing efforts. It's pretty close to the wall which adds some issues.
