[AT] Rust magic?

[CRAWLER HEAVEN]

First of all there is a term in metalolgie?? that the two pieces will become
one and then it is to late you can save the links but the pins&bushing will
never come apart.   Do you have a pond? Throw them in the pond for a week or
two and see iff you can move them then. I have left them in the pond of a
few weeks and put them right on my track press and pressed them apart and
have saved about half of the ones i did. If you did get them to move unless
you take them apart and clean and reassemble you would have to put 50-100
hours on them right away or they will sieze again.  Ed
www.crawlerheaven.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JParks" <jkparks at flash.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 7:52 AM
Subject: [AT] Rust magic?


> I am looking for any suggestions or recommendations for a real rust
buster.
>
> I have two sets of almost new TD6 track that sat on a machine for years
and
> all the joints were either really stiff or frozen.
>
> I have soaked all the joints w/ diesel, driven over them several times
with
> wheel loaders and even a track loader.  I presoaked them again with diesel
> and with the use of an excavator boom to hold each link down in sequence,
> and using the curl linkage, I hooked up to each link and was able to work
> each joint back and forth a little before moving down the chain to the
next
> link.  It is still too tight!
>
> I talked to an old (like me) crawler man who has run a track shop for
> decades (and he has "seen-it-all") and he does not think I should set them
> on fire.  He has run across track like this before and he could not even
> dismantle them without ruining or busting some of the individual links.
>
> What liquid rust breaker on the market will really work (vs. what is
simply
> marketed and does not work)!?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> John Parks
> Boise, ID
>
>
>
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