I use a drywall screw to remove the pin on the handles. if you screw the screw in by hand, it will grip the pin just enough, then take a pair of pliers, and pull on the screw, it should pull the pin right out, without doing any damage to the plastic handle itself. Ive done exactly this a half dozen times on protege's. As we use there chrome handles on our 626's as chrome upgrades.