As a matter of fact in ten years as a professional technician, (ASE Master certification, MACS certified, Va state inspector class A, and the veteran of many seminars and schools) I HAVE cut exhaust pipes (NOT aluminum) used a nut splitter (the proper tool) to break nuts (again NOT aluminum) when the 'hot wrench' wouldn't work and used heat carefully to remove broken studs and bolts from heads, blocks, etc. (Again NOT aluminum Read my lips-you cannot heat aluminium close to the melting point safely-or do you have some kind of super sensitive 6th sense the rest of us don't know about? I'm sure I and the rest of us would love for you to detail you experience in heating aluminum to close to melting and having anything left to work with. Patrick Foltz |
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