Hmmm, I work for a HMO - I wonder if some liquid nitrogen would do an even better job?? <BSG> John Rodgers wrote: > -- [ From: John Rodgers * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > Todd Last wrote: > > > If your axle nuts are frozen.........!!>> > > Try some Marvels Mystery Oil (Not the top lube stuff....but the genuine > penetrating oil -- Available throught ACE Hardware Stores and others...... > usual disclaimers!!) on those axle nuts. That has worked for me at times > when nothing else would. If that doesn't do it, try heating them, then > apply candle wax to the edge where the nut and threads contact. As the > metal cools it sucks the wax down into the threads. Makes them slick. > > One final thing to try. Once I had a problem nut on an airplane. I > discharged a CO2 extinguisher on it and dropped the temperature of the nut > and the bolt way down. Then I rapidly heated the nut, and put turning > pressure on it while there was still temperature differential between the > two. > > It worked! But was kinda expensive, what with having to recharge the fire > extinguisher.! > > Good luck. > > John Rodgers > '88 GL Driver |
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