[Spridgets] Thermostat housing done

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I need a tool like that...

pardon my in experience with metallurgy, but could you have compromised the strength of the studs by doing that?  Just curious.

Chris


---- Mark Haynes <haynes386 at netzero.net> wrote: 
> Thanks for all of your input, it took a thermal shock (I have access to Liquid
> Nitrogen, so that part was easy), and a good whack at the parting line with a
> screwdriver-turned-wood chisel to get it moving. The DPO put it together with
> blue silicone and NO GASKET! no wonder I couldn't find the gasket line.
> anyway, Thanks for all of the input-on to the next!