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

[Cecil Bearden]

This is just a thought.   I always have some liquid nitrogen around for 
freeze branding maybe if you could hold something like a Styrofoam cup 
around the bolt and fill it with liquid nitrogen, then wait until the 
nitrogen is evaporated  and the bolt comes back up to room temp.  It is 
possible this would shrink the bolt enough to break it loose from the 
cast iron.  If you could lay the entire assembly flat then stick the 
bolt through the bottom of a Styrofoam cup,  this might get the bolt 
cold enough without the cast iron.   just a thought.  Before I had 
liquid nitrogen, I used liquid propane very carefully..
Cecil

On 6/23/2019 5:17 PM, deanvp wrote:
> The only real reliable solution is to use an acetylene torch(gas axe). 
> That is the only way to get enough heat to handle on the mass of the 
> cast iron. An alternative would be to slide the whole wheel assembly 
> off the axle and take the whole assembly somewhere where there is 
> adequate heat and air pressure.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: STEVE ALLEN <steveallen855 at centurytel.net>
> Date: 6/23/19 1:49 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Subject: Re: [AT] List quiet!! Everyone OK, or just waterlogged???
>
> 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
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