The door is hinged on the bottom with a 1" long 1/4" diameter hollow pin that is mounted in a hole on an angled steel plate. The horizonal portion of the plate has two holes the same distance from the freezer when mounted, one towards the outside and one towards the center of the freezer. The pin is mounted in the outer hole.

To reverse the door I have to take the door off, remount the top and bottom steel plates on the other side, and flip the door upside down (because the door only has hinge pin slots on one side.) Of course, I also have to reverse the inside shelves but that is not the problem.

The problem is when I move the bottom metal plate to the other side I need to remove the pin from the hole it is in and and reseat the pin in the other hole in the steel plate, so the pin is towards the outside of the fridge.

I thought one good whack would free the pin from the plate and then I could just whack it into the other hole. No such luck. Despite enough force to almost damage the top of the pin, I could not knock it out.

Any ideas? I checked to see if I could buy a new steel plate but it is no longer made for this 15+ year old freezer. I presume appliance parts pros or Repair Clinic would have found one if they knew of an equivalent.