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To: Windflier

Blue wrench is just slang for a torch flame. We don’t want to go there if possible :) Just give a little rap on the fastener head, like driving a nail. The object being to break the corrosion up slightly—really just kind of sending a shockwave through the assembly without deforming anything other than the corrosion. Do it after letting the Kroil work on it for a while If the fastener head is soft, like aluminum, take a little care not to mar it up. Just a sharp/quick, but still soft tap with the smallest ball peen you have. Good luck.


197 posted on 03/13/2017 3:47:50 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: Trod Upon
Just give a little rap on the fastener head, like driving a nail. The object being to break the corrosion up slightly—really just kind of sending a shockwave through the assembly without deforming anything other than the corrosion. Do it after letting the Kroil work on it for a while

Aye aye, Cap'n. I'll do that.

210 posted on 03/13/2017 6:40:52 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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