Tips on removing teflon/stuffing tube?

[Manns50]

Have a Veles 29, trying to remove the Teflon from the stuffing tube. I have search this on this forum and have read several tricks but most people seem to say grab it and pull it out.
The problem is there is only about an 8th inch protruding inside the boat. I remove the strut on the rear and the Teflon is down in there about an inch and a half. I tried Tapping a roll pin about the same size as the Teflon in the rear, to see if it would tap forward enough for maybe able to grab it with pliers.... no luck. I touched my soldering iron to it a little bit, but I didn't want to get the brass tube very hot to risk melting something else. I held the soldering iron on the rear part of the tube Long enough to where it was hot to the touch.
Any tips greatly appreciated.

[Shadow99]

I used a section of plastic tubing to push out what was left of my Teflon liner in my Jetstream 888.
Whatever you use it should be flexible, a roll pin will move/distort the brass stuffing tube.
Shadow

[Manns50]

Thank you for your reply, I ended up getting it tonight after a good fight. I ended up using a punch just slightly smaller than the stuffing tube, I was trying to drive it from the rear toward the front. There was only about an eighth of an inch protruding inside the boat that I could try and grab. But the punch was a failed method it was just folding up the Teflon inside the tube and in essence jamming it in there. What ended up working is heating the 2 inch part of the stuffing tube inside the boat with a heat gun. I use the silicone cookie sheet underneath a tube and some towels to divert the heat. Three or four rounds of heating it and using needle nose pulling up the little piece that I could grab resulted in it stretching and ultimately coming loose. It didn't go without a fight though!
It seems like the glued portion of the Teflon was right where it went through the hull.

[Shadow99]

Teflon liner tubes are not glued in. I don?t know of any glues that would stick to a Teflon liner, they are usually just a slip fit into the brass stuffing tube.
Be careful using heat on the brass stuffing tube though, heat will release the epoxy?s grip on the brass & fiberglass surfaces.
Glad you figured it out.
Shadow

[Manns50]

Teflon liner tubes are not glued in. I don?t know of any glues that would stick to a Teflon liner, they are usually just a slip fit into the brass stuffing tube.
Be careful using heat on the brass stuffing tube though, heat will release the epoxy?s grip on the brass & fiberglass surfaces.
Glad you figured it out.
Shadow

This had an adhesive or whatever you wanna call it on the outside of the Teflon it looked like and it was right where the stuffing tube went through the hull, or near the top. It was hard to tell because it moved around a little as I was pulling it out. But there was definitely something on the outside of it.
And I was concerned about having to add as much heat and I progressed each time, but it would not have come out without the heat for sure. I kept checking the epoxy around the hull And it seem to stay unaffected the whole time.
I think the trick to these is heating the Teflon anyway that you can and stretching it which in turn makes the diameter smaller and pull out. I actually looked up Teflon and read about it and its properties LOL. Was trying to learn as much as I could. And I read the Teflon actually shrinks with heat, not cooler temperatures.
Thank you for your help and advice, the people willing to help out in these forums are awesome.