-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Clark <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
To: shop-talk@autox.team.net <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: rounded off nut removal
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: McVintage@aol.com
>
>>Suggestions wanted for removing rounded off nut where space and
>>clearance around the nut are VERY limited. Its at the flange joining
>>diff to prop shaft on my TR6 - on the diff side of the flange.
>
>
>Too tight a place for a socket? Usually, I can find a six point socket,
>worn out, metric etc. that will remove a rounded nut. If there's no socket
>room and it was rounded off with a 12 point box-end or an open end,
>sometimes a 6 point box end will help. Sometimes, a 6 point and some piano
>wire ends wedged around the opening will help.
>Then there are vise-grips, a good tool of last resort . . I've even
>sacrificed a pair of Tiwan vise grips and ground the jaws to fit a
butchered
>nut. I've filed two flats on a nut so that an open end will fit, I've
>ground a nut down to the thread and then chiseled it off, I've used a
little
>cheap air hammer and ground on the bit 'til it can turn a nut
chisel-style.
>Actually, if a rounded nut is giving me much trouble, I go get the
>"flame-wrench" and torch it off.
>:-)
>Tony
>
Tony.....the word you were looking for was finesse..<g>
Steve
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