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Re: wire wheel spokes

To: Maffei Andrew P SSgt 27LG/LGQPT <Andrew.Maffei@cannon.af.mil>,
Subject: Re: wire wheel spokes
From: ya632@victoria.tc.ca (Paul Nelson)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:20:00 -0800
At 11:00 1/24/00 -0700, Maffei Andrew P SSgt 27LG/LGQPT wrote:
>Dose anyone out there have any Ideas on how to free up frozen spokes on the
>wire wheels?, so far I have tried soaking them in WD-40 for two days, no
>good, then I tried heating them,  I ended up with a broken spoke on that
>one! any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Ho;w about heating the nut, followed quickly by a blast from a COO fire
extinguisher on the spoke, so that you get contraction of the spoke within
the expanded nut.  Haven't tried this, but the theory seems to make sense.
Paul Nelson



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