[Farmall] Gear puller

[John Hall]

Bear, I'm with you on the multiple heating and cooling cycles. I think it 
works especially well on bolts.

Hey Karl, never really used one but wonder what and impact hammer would do 
if you could use it while trying to pull?

John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill "Bear" Hood" <mmman at netscape.com>
To: <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Farmall] Gear puller


> Karl
> I am a big believer in the "blue wrench" and use it often.  Sometimes not 
> to heat and then pull, but heat it and let it cool through 2 or 3 cycles. 
> Some of these things have been together 60-70 years and they were an 
> interference fit to start with.  Heating and cooling breaks this joint as 
> it streaches and cools.  Buy good pullers--I have about 20 I have 
> accumulated down through the years and none of them new.  I even have an 
> original Aeromotor puller to pull the bull gear in a windmill gearbox--and 
> have used it.
> Good tools are like families, you plan on keeping them for life.
> Bear
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