Mechanic trick, for folks who work on cars
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This is an ordinary strap wrench.
It may look like a cool trick for
those who've never used them.
They've been in hardware stores
before all of us were born.
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Yup I had I used while working in the plantsThis is an ordinary strap wrench.
It may look like a cool trick for
those who've never used them.
They've been around forever.
That ain't no trick. shit been around for decades
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To let the lubricant penetrate pass the area where the threads of the bolt and nut meet
guess it best to use small bit, so bolt remains usable
Wish I knew this when I had a water heater pressure release valve that broke. Ended up buying a whole new heater.
And for rusted bolts, PB Blaster is more effective than WD-40
If the first level is caked up and formed a serious seal, good luck with breaking that nut..
I’m just speaking from experience from the refinery world.
one of the stupidest jobs I recently did was change out some values a steam line.
we sprayed these bout like twice a day for three days before the job
before we started I asked the supervisor, if we could cut them with a grinder/saw
said no, they didn’t want to not hot work(chance of producing sparks) in that area
so we went up there with our 1 1/4 combination wrenches, hammer wrenches and mauls
for three hours we only removed 3 bolts of 24
We even bend a combo wrench, if u know anything about them, you know it takes some beat to bend one of them
they hired a specialty crew, who machines tighten bolts and nuts
the machine couldn’t loosen them damn bolts
in this situation, the temperature of the steam gets so hot, it causes the metal to expand some,
It’s almost like the bolts and nuts kinda become so tight, it’s like they’re welded together…
Lube aint gonna do nothing for that… the anti-seeze we used don’t last
Man, if you don't know these already maybe you shouldn't be working on cars in the first place.
Ain't no fuckin' way I'm trying some shit like this!!!
You can't go up with a tranny with bolts majority of the time. You have no room for all that. No clearance for that and probably will end up bending the bolts or damaging threads.
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