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    Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:07pm
Anyone ever try that?


Cutting a nut off a bolt with an acetylene torch with out damaging the threads on the bolt, or damaging the equipment your working on

Its surprisingly difficult
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I've done it before with my dad when we were rebuilding an old F-150. You can also get rusted nuts off a bolt by heating up the nut with an acetylene torch, then taking an impact gun to it.

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Its possible if there is enough space between the surface and the nut.
Cut it off with a cut-off wheel. I have done it on a few frozen lug nuts before.
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Ive done that too. My teacher was showing me how to wash nuts off a D8 cat yesterday. 
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You should not have to use an oxy-fuel torch to get a bolt out. Heat it up and ez-out it. 
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Originally posted by Ford Ford wrote:

You should not have to use an oxy-fuel torch to get a bolt out. Heat it up and ez-out it. 
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Its about taking a frozen nut off a bolt with out damaging the bolt since you will need to possibly reuse it. Hard to get a spare bolt when your on the side of a mountain
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The bolt's useless with no head anyways, you might as well destroy the threads on it.
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All you really need is a little soap and water.
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Your not cutting the head off, your cutting the nut off.


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Oh, for some reason I was reading that as cutting the head off, I was like, what in the hell would you want to save the threads for if you cut the head off ?
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Originally posted by Ford Ford wrote:

Oh, for some reason I was reading that as cutting the head off, I was like, what in the hell would you want to save the threads for if you cut the head off ?


Could weld on a nut to use as a bolt head for that one too.
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Solution: Join society and move off side of said mountain
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