Washing of nuts
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Topic: Washing of nuts
Posted By: .636
Subject: Washing of nuts
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:07pm
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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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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:11pm
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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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Posted By: cdacda13
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:13pm
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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. |
Posted By: .636
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:14pm
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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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Posted By: Ford
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:14pm
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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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Posted By: .636
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:16pm
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 ------------- |
Ford wrote:Posted By: Ford
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:20pm
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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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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:22pm
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Posted By: .636
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:22pm
Your not cutting the head off, your cutting the nut off. ------------- |
Posted By: Ford
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:24pm
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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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Posted By: .636
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:27pm
Could weld on a nut to use as a bolt head for that one too. ------------- |
Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 3:29pm
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Every time I shower... thoroughly.
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 8:28pm
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Solution: Join society and move off side of said mountain
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