Re: IML: Frozen Nuts

["Don Hudson" <mopar4me@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might try your local Sears.  I picked one up a few years back and it seemed to work as advertised.

Don

----- Original Message -----

From: Joe

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Cc: Kenyon Wills

Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 2:56 PM

Subject: Re: IML: Frozen Nuts

Excellent!  Good ole Kenyon was close with "nut breaker" and his suggestion drove me to the JC Whitney catalogue  That tool, according to JC Whitney, is called a Nut Splitter.

 

Hmmmm, I wonder if the local 16 year-old parts puke at Autozone would take a swipe at me if I went up to the counter and asked, "So, dude, do you have a nut splitter?"

 

LOL

 

--
Joe
Allen, Texas
'61 4D Crown Southampton

 

-------------- Original message --------------

> If Rolland's chisel idea does not work, there is a
> tool that is a "nut breaker" or some such. I think
> that it's called something similar to that but
> different - what with a 99% male target market, but it
> fits over the offending frozen nut and has a threaded
> hole in it that you screw a pointed bolt or something
> like a chisel point through that uses vice-like action
> to sever one face of the nut, which can then be pried
> or unscrewed off.
>
> Seems to me that this is a more progressive and less
> violent way to go than striking with a chisel if
> you're focused on preserving the threads underneath,
> but since I have not used either method, I can't say
> for certain which is better.
>
> Any excuse to get ano! ther tool is at least worth
> pondering at my place .
>
> -Kenyon
>
>
>
> --- RWestra@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Joe:
> >
> > I believe the nut is a replaceable item isn't it? I
> > would chisel the nut
> > loose. The way to do this without damaging the
> > shaft is to place one of the
> > flats of the hex on something solid (an anvil or a
> > vise is preferred). Then
> > place about a 1/2" wide chisel in line with the axis
> > of the thread and centered
> > on the opposite flat of the hex. Four or five
> > good blows will spread the
> > nut and you will likely be able to remove it with a
> > pliers. Try not to chisel
> > all the way through the nut or you will damage the
> > threads of the shaft.
> > Protect your eyes with safety glasses. Then go out
> > and buy a new nut.
> >
> > Let us know ho! w it works out.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rolland Westra
> >
>
>
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