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Re: If the nut is rounding over.... Posted by Snowmobile [Email] (#686) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Snowmobile) on Sat, 4 Jan 2014 18:19:06 In Reply to: If the nut is rounding over...., tweetiedancer, Sat, 4 Jan 2014 16:20:25 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
if it is rounding over, I find vice grips work better than pipe wrenches... I find a pipe wrench is a fairly awkward tool to use in tight spaces (ie outside of doing plumbing)... it is amazing what vice grips will hold on to... I use them far more than I should!
...but tweetiedancer's comment about the pipe is a very good one: how much lever arm are you using? I find that many of these situations benefit from a *BIG* breaker bar... I have one that is 4' long an inch or inch and a quarter in diameter, solid steel, 3/4 drive. That sucker breaks stuff, whereas the flimsy little 24" ones just bend into pretzels (and putting pipes over tools, while sometimes helpful, often breaks tools - pipe was the primary means of pretzeling smaller breaker bars for me)... If I can't break it with the big breaker and liquid wrench and worst case some heat from a torch (if safe), then I go to surgical methods as Scott Shure suggested in the thread below. just carefully dremel a slot in the side of the nut and crack/separate it with a cold chisel...
hopefully it is warmer where you are working than it is right here right now!
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