On 9/29/2013 6:50 PM, Mike B wrote:
> Buy a 60 inch length of 1 1/4' Sched 40 black iron pipe from Home Depot
> or Lowes for under $20.
>
> Mike B.
>
> On 9/29/2013 2:37 PM, Scott Daniel wrote:
>> nice find.
>> nowyou need a good long, about 3 feet, solid cheater bar to use with
>> your two new tools.
>>
>> even standing on the end of a very stout 3 1/2 long cheater bar
>> sometimes in not enough to unscrew that mutha.
>> I've had to heat a few of those nuts ( like one out of dozen or so ) ..
>> in one extreme case ..even with heating ...the nut galled the threads on
>> the stub axle taking the nut off.  Both nut and stub axle were ruined.
>> That only happened once in dozens of years though.
>>
>> it's good to take things like the rear axle nut and flange apart once in
>> a great while ..make sure their not seized badly with rust etc.
>>
>> scott
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/29/2013 4:01 AM, Stephen Grisanti wrote:
>>> I'm not looking forward to ever needing the 46mm socket for the big
>>> rear axle nut, but have always kept that measurement (and its
>>> standard 1 13/16" equivalent) in mind in case I trip over one, which
>>> I recently did.  Of course, after buying I find that NAPA stocks the
>>> non-metric one for $25 (on sale this week for $16!) but that Ohio
>>> antique mall was fairly boring until I hit a huge booth full of tools
>>> and the $5 find that is now living under the back seat of the '87
>>> Westy with its new Harbor Freight 3/4" drive breaker bar.
>>>
You can get a long piece of black pipe fro mthe scrap yard for a lot
less than $20.....and my Chinese made MAC 1/2" dr. impact with a weak
compressor still delivers over 900ft./lbs. in the reverse mode.  By the
time the compressor is out of air, I'm ready fro a break from the racket
and vibration....lol

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