[AT] JD B Problems

[Dean VP]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeswax#Uses_as_a_product



Dean VP
Snohomish, WA

A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one
again.


-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]
On Behalf Of Ralph Goff
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 6:49 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] JD B Problems

On 8/1/2013 7:17 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Dean I've got a friend who worked for 40 years as a multi-craft
> mechanic in a paper mill.  He's got all sorts of tricks.  We were
> working on something particularly hard to get apart once.  I can't
> remember now what it was but it wouldn't give.  We had used
> penetrating oil and heat and brute force, etc.
> He finally went to a tool box and came back with some bees wax.
> Heated the thing red hot again and melted the bees wax into the crack
> between the housing
> and the shaft.  In a few minutes it slide right off.   I'm sure the bees wax
> didn't do
> it all but it finished the job off.
>
Seems like I heard of a similar method used to remove stubborn exhaust manifold bolts from
an engine head. I haven't tried it but read it in a forum.

Ralph in Sask.
>

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