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

[deanvp at att.net]

Steve,

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 (if
it isn't stuck worse) and take the whole assembly somewhere where there is
adequate heat and air pressure.

Dean VP
Snohomish, WA 98290

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Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2019 1:50 PM
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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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