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To: Windflier

Drill and replace.
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This should always be your last option. Common sense use of acetylene heat (torch) is always the way to go. I have not used the induction heat method but it is the new rave in heating ferrous metals. The problem with dissimilar metals (steel bolt and aluminum block) is the galvanic action (corrosion) that tends to occur between dissimilar metals that can bond the two metals together. You need to achieve expansion and contraction to break that bond.


130 posted on 03/13/2017 3:54:13 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: iontheball
The problem with dissimilar metals (steel bolt and aluminum block) is the galvanic action (corrosion) that tends to occur between dissimilar metals that can bond the two metals together. You need to achieve expansion and contraction to break that bond.

Noted. Thank you!

181 posted on 03/13/2017 11:07:04 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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