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| | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 Sir Searchalot | | Sir Searchalot Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 | Can't bust em loose? They strip out? Frustrated? Buy This. Buzz it and buzz it with your air chisel motor and then turn while buzzing some more. Greatest tool for $18 you can buy. Heat, liquid wrench and this on the really ones. The vibration is the key, Works the oil down in, busts the rust and shakes her loose.
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| | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,412 Former Workshop Owner | | Former Workshop Owner Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,412 | Interesting, never seen or heard of such a tool. I thought for sure the link would show a hand impact tool. The type that requires the use of a hammer.
John
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,708 back yard wrench turner | | back yard wrench turner Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,708 | I made a couple of these when I rebuilt my truck. One is a straight blade and one is a phillips head welded to a pointed tip and a screwdriver handle welded on the side. It will back out a screw very easily. There should be one in all tool boxes.
I like the interchangeable tip on this model.
Wayne1938 1-Ton Farm TruckStovebolt Gallery Forums1989 Silverado 1996 Mustang GT convertible When I die, I hope she doesn't sell everything for what I told her I paid for it! | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 Sir Searchalot | | Sir Searchalot Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 | Actually it is not the same principle as the hammer type. This one has several differences/advantages. You provide the turning with your hand on this one. The hammer blows provide the turn on the other. That can damage what you are trying to disassemble. For example: if you are trying to get a hinge off of a door jamb, the hammer type will bend the jamb inward and deform the area before you get the screws loose. There are other places where this can happen also. A motor can be irreparably damaged and etc.
The are times you have no room to swing a hammer.
Wayne, you can "chuck up" an old valve to flatten metal.
A heavy equipment field mechanic will take off bolts on some big part and it won't free up. They use a flattened chisel or bar on their air motor and vibrate the object all over it. Then it comes loose. No room to swing a hammer to tap it all around.
Another tool I have similar to all this, that takes off hardened grease, is a Harbor Freight needler. Super good.
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,281 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,281 | I made one of those and formed the business end to 3/8" do that i can use sockets and adapters to use hex shaft clutch head and other bits.
That tool very seldom fails me.
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,814 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,814 | My Black & Decker 3/8" drive battery powered impact wrench has a variable-speed trigger that allows me to do the same kind of thing. Hold firm pressure against the screw head after soaking the stubborn screw with KROIL for a while, and gently hammer on it in both directions. It's a lot simpler than hooking up an air line, firing up the compressor, etc.
Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,076 Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums | | Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,076 | I've had similar success with a 1/4" drive Dewalt impact driver. Gently working at it is the key to getting stubborn fasteners loose without destroying the head. That and a proper fitting bit.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truckFollow this saga in Project JournalPhotos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,708 back yard wrench turner | | back yard wrench turner Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,708 | Wayne, you can "chuck up" an old valve to flatten metal. How does it stay in the air hammer without the raised area behind the spring?
Wayne1938 1-Ton Farm TruckStovebolt Gallery Forums1989 Silverado 1996 Mustang GT convertible When I die, I hope she doesn't sell everything for what I told her I paid for it! | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 Sir Searchalot | | Sir Searchalot Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 | You said you made something like this so I thought you could make one with an old valve. I don't know how you made the others.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. - William Penn
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,708 back yard wrench turner | | back yard wrench turner Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,708 | You said you made something like this so I thought you could make one with an old valve. I don't know how you made the others. I would have to weld the valve to one of the factory tips 
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