[AT] OT...Need some advice on old metal building

Mogrits mogrits at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 14:14:39 PDT 2012


We've been looking for one. We know it exists but we're working hundreds of
miles home and don't have access to the vendors we have at home. Our new
air hammer and cut-off chisel is making some time and we're going looking
for those horseshoe nail pliers too.

Thanks for all the terrific advice. I was certain this list would help!

Warren
On Sep 14, 2012 5:02 PM, "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> They make a chisel for air hammers that is in a V shape with a slightly
> sharpened edge inside the V.  See if you can find one of those.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mogrits
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 1:50 PM
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>
> Thanks for all the suggestions. We've tried variations of all of them.
> There are limitations to each method. The reality is its an occupied
> building and many of the exterior walls have been built against. Not to
> mention the roof. The purlins and girts are spaced 4' o.c. and the screws
> are 9"oc along them and the bldg is 50x120x20 so you can see there are
> literally thousands of screws w inaccessible nuts. We tried just peeling
> off the sheeting w a wrecking bar but the sheets are 22 ga!
>
> My Super just called and said he may have found a way. He borrowed a
> powerful air chisel and a dull bit and knocked off 10 screw heads in 3
> mins. That's the production we need at a minimum .
> On Sep 14, 2012 1:32 PM, "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> > How about a nut cracker? Those normally do not operate fast, but they do
> > remove square or hex nuts from just one side of an installation.  You may
> > be able to rig up a power drill to do the heavy work for you.  I think I
> > bought a set of them at Harbor Freight.  They come in two sizes, and I
> > used
> > mine about a month ago to split a rusted square nut on an antique
> > cultivator that I'm restoring.  the across flats distance was one inch.
> >  That was the absolute limit of the nut cracker, but it did it without
> any
> > broken tools or busted knuckles.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ken Knierim" <ken.knierim at gmail.com>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <
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> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 11:52:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] OT...Need some advice on old metal building
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Mogrits <mogrits at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm adding onto what's likely the oldest pre-engineered metal building
> > > I've ever seen, much less worked on for a customer. We are going to
> > > re-skin the existing building and add insulation while we're at it.
> > >
> > > However, the darned thing is sheeted with dome headed slotted screws
> > > and inside each has a square nut. Removing them is giving my erection
> > > crew a fit. Anyone have a suggestion on how to remove these things or
> > > a quick way to knock the heads off. It being a working building, it's
> > > really going to be an issue trying to get to the nuts when we get to
> > > the roof. We've tried grinding them off and chiseling them off but
> > > haven't found the right way to make some time.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Warren
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> > Have you tried tightening them instead? That will probably snap them off.
> > Not sure if that's what you're looking for but...
> >
> > We put a hopper bin together with a dome shaped slotted screw with square
> > nuts and we could break those silly things with hand tools. Where the
> head
> > attached to the screwed part was soft, weak or whatever and would just
> pop
> > off if you reefed on it with a large screwdriver, let alone an open end
> > wrench. Made air tools useless since we couldn't set the torque low
> > enough.
> > A butterfly wrench might work now but Dad didn't have one back in the
> day.
> >
> > Ken in AZ.
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