[AT] List quiet!! Everyone OK, or just waterlogged???

[STEVE ALLEN]

We are certainly water-logged here in mid-MO.  Stuck inside again today because of rain.

That said, I have been beating my head up against the brick wall of rusted lug bolts.

Both of the tires on my '48 JD A need attention, and one of the wheels has lost a strip of the bead off the rim, so both need to come off and visit the tire shop.  (I have another rim from which they can cut pieces of good bead to replace the lost sections.)

But I am having a heckuva time getting the wheels off.  The lug bolts just don't want to come out.  With some penetrant, I go the first one out OK, but it was obvious that the upper part of the shank next to the head was eroded, so I became concerned I would twist one off, but I wasn't cautious enough, for that is exactly what happened to the second one.  (There are 9 on each wheel.)

Since then, I have used more penetrant, heat, hammering, candle wax (a tip I got off this list, but I don't remember whose its was), and an impact wrench.  I have managed to extract one more, but, at this rate, the rubber will rot off before I get them all out.  I know that my compressor does not build up a great deal of pressure.  I have been using propane for the heat; I have bought MAPP gas for further attempts.  I have *not* tried the breaker bar and cheater again because I am afraid of twisting the rest of them off.  

Patience is a virtue, but I would like to get the job done this summer as I need the tractor this fall.  

If anyone has any suggestions, I am all ears.

The "original" Steve Allen