Several years ago I broke a bolt off flush with the aluminum
casting on a VW water pump on a water cooled Vanagon.
I put a lot of liquid wrench on the broken stud for several days.
Then I took the pump to a body shop down the street and
told the man there we only had one chance to make this work.
I had him arc weld another bolt to the broken stud and whoopee
the broken one backed right out.
Sometimes your lucky other times things don't work out.
Dean
Dean Sale
A Defender of Liberty and Advocate
of Freedom for Texas and Texians
Let's Live as Texans, Free Again
One of the Broaddus Six
----- Original Message -----
From: Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of VACList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 11:41 AM
Subject: [VAC] Re: removal of black water tank shroud
> I've taken bolts out of places where the bolt was only available in a
> slot slightly wider than the bolt so I had to cut that bolt (3/4"
> diameter) on a diagonal. Between the slot in that tractor axle casting
> and the adjacent brake plate there would not have been room for a guard.
> I do occasionally use the die grinder as a grinder so with the mandrel I
> get double duty from one tool.
>
> Yes, once a wheel wears down some it looses cutting effectivity and
> seems to wear more rapidly than the steel.
>
> In many cases around old farm machinery, the cost of wheels has been
> less than the cost of the replacement bolts. Though it did take a lot of
> small grinding tips to grind out a 5/8" bolt frozen in place and broken
> off flush with loctite and with an easy-out stuck in its middle in a
> $800 casting.
>
> Often a bolt cutter should be faster, but I've not found the bolt cutter
> that survives many nuts.
>
> Gerald J.
>
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