Good quality chisels and punches

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(02-08-2015, 08:47 AM)terrywerm Wrote: I used to have a lot of trouble with pin punches until an old timer taught me something that I did not know: You never start to loosen a pin using a pin punch.

Yes...  x 1000 

Use a starter punch first to break the bond and get the pin to move, then finish driving it out with the longer pin punch.
The smaller the pin (and punch), the more important this becomes because they bend and break so much more easily.