{"id":187,"date":"2013-01-22T10:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T10:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/01\/22\/recommended-buy-lego-brick-separator-tool\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T17:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T21:07:26","slug":"recommended-buy-lego-brick-separator-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/01\/recommended-buy-lego-brick-separator-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"RECOMMENDED BUY: LEGO Brick Separator Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how this ended up in our possession, but at some point on our Holiday Season Travels (which included many LEGO gifts for and purchases by our first-grader, and many hours of LEGO building for all, both in new sets and sifting through the decades-old bins of LEGO at various relatives homes) my son acquired one of these little guys:
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\nThat’s a “LEGO Brick Separator Tool” and it’s worth its weight in gold. I remember many a nail bent back and tooth chipped trying to separate bricks and plates when I was a boy–but such enhanced interrogation and freelance orthodontics are a thing of the past. Just attach this little fella to the pesky LEGO (either from above or below), and you can lever it off with ease–even if you are only endowed with the scrawny musculature and soft hands of an American first grader. The added bonus on this model LEGO tool is the little poky-axle on top, which helps dislodge short rods, axles, and pins from Technic wheels and gears. As soon as it entered our house this tool reduced the calls of “Daaaaaadeeeeee: I need help getting these LEGOs apart!” by a solid 90 percent. *Bliss!*
\nLEGO tools currently sell new at Amazon for about $7, although I’ve seen older style tools online (ones without the axle\/pin pusher on top) for as little as $2–even at the higher price, this thing is *so worth it.*
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