What To Do When Your Nuts Get Rusty
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Date: 2024-07-17
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kenchilton
I second the torch practice suggestion. Many people are surprised what you can do with a torch after a little experience. Welding and machining is one of the cheapest hobbies I have, since I already bought all the equipment years ago. Now it is just a few bottles and sticks and spools and a pile of scrap to keep me amused for hours on end.
Everybody gets all excited about MIG and TIG, but a plain ol’ torch is still an irreplaceable tool in the kit to preheat, cut dirty, or puddle. I am also in the rust belt, so the torch is as essential as the socket set when it comes to working on the vehicles. My favorites are also Victors, but I call mine The Dragons.
As far as the rest of the welding family, the new stick welder is Sparky, the old MIG is Buzz, the fancy TIG is Cheryl, and the plasma cutter is just the plasma cutter. Why do we name these things You know there is something wrong with us, no
I would like to see more videos like this one where you talk about some of your equipment and techniques in more detail as the whole topic of the video. Things like those glasses are a lot less obvious than the torch brand. Not all the time, but when you can.
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I second the torch practice suggestion. Many people are surprised what you can do with a torch after a little experience. Welding and machining is one of the cheapest hobbies I have, since I already bought all the equipment years ago. Now it is just a few bottles and sticks and spools and a pile of scrap to keep me amused for hours on end.
Everybody gets all excited about MIG and TIG, but a plain ol’ torch is still an irreplaceable tool in the kit to preheat, cut dirty, or puddle. I am also in the rust belt, so the torch is as essential as the socket set when it comes to working on the vehicles. My favorites are also Victors, but I call mine The Dragons.
As far as the rest of the welding family, the new stick welder is Sparky, the old MIG is Buzz, the fancy TIG is Cheryl, and the plasma cutter is just the plasma cutter. Why do we name these things You know there is something wrong with us, no
I would like to see more videos like this one where you talk about some of your equipment and techniques in more detail as the whole topic of the video. Things like those glasses are a lot less obvious than the torch brand. Not all the time, but when you can.
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mike13653
I recently had to do converters on my 05 Taurus in my driveway. Southern Georgia car it's whole life with 300k miles. Pretty sure the old converters were original. Anyway was able to get the bottom nut off with my Earthquake XT half inch with a reducer and swivel sockets but the upper nut was noticeably more corroded. After using a chisel and hammer for while a friend brought me some Dremels with cutoff wheels and off it comes. Cut the stud a little on the third converter but new nut threaded on just fine and torqued to spec. Car is pretty rust free but the exhaust system no matter where you are will always rust easily due to the high heat, moisture/humidity in the air, and rain.
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I recently had to do converters on my 05 Taurus in my driveway. Southern Georgia car it's whole life with 300k miles. Pretty sure the old converters were original. Anyway was able to get the bottom nut off with my Earthquake XT half inch with a reducer and swivel sockets but the upper nut was noticeably more corroded. After using a chisel and hammer for while a friend brought me some Dremels with cutoff wheels and off it comes. Cut the stud a little on the third converter but new nut threaded on just fine and torqued to spec. Car is pretty rust free but the exhaust system no matter where you are will always rust easily due to the high heat, moisture/humidity in the air, and rain.
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jpol3808
My dad's method that he taught me, was to spray it with a liberal dose of liquid wrench, then drive down and get an ice cream, then. Have your tools ready and assembled and sitting there so once you get back, and pull up on the ramps, you roll under and as soon as the car is off you just break them loose with whatever tools you prepared to give you the most leverage, 6 point socket, wrench, extensions, cheater pipe, etc. They usually popped and came loose. Just be careful not to get burned on the hot pipes! Dad liked icecream too! What is it with mechanics and icecream anyway Lol RIP Dad! Oh and thanks# You too Eric! Later. J Poll.
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My dad's method that he taught me, was to spray it with a liberal dose of liquid wrench, then drive down and get an ice cream, then. Have your tools ready and assembled and sitting there so once you get back, and pull up on the ramps, you roll under and as soon as the car is off you just break them loose with whatever tools you prepared to give you the most leverage, 6 point socket, wrench, extensions, cheater pipe, etc. They usually popped and came loose. Just be careful not to get burned on the hot pipes! Dad liked icecream too! What is it with mechanics and icecream anyway Lol RIP Dad! Oh and thanks# You too Eric! Later. J Poll.
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OcRefrig
Great video! if You don't have a cutting tip for your torch, You can do almost the exact same thing with Standard torch tip & Feathering the Oxygen valve / opening the valve more in a blast & almost closing the oxygen down while heating the area in need of cutting. using a #2 tip & 5psi acetylene & 20 psig oxygen setting and a little practice can get u there.
When u get good enough You Can Draw a Line in a piece of sheet metal with a torch. a #2 tip can get into tight places too. a #1 tip can be used in tight quarters.
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Great video! if You don't have a cutting tip for your torch, You can do almost the exact same thing with Standard torch tip & Feathering the Oxygen valve / opening the valve more in a blast & almost closing the oxygen down while heating the area in need of cutting. using a #2 tip & 5psi acetylene & 20 psig oxygen setting and a little practice can get u there.
When u get good enough You Can Draw a Line in a piece of sheet metal with a torch. a #2 tip can get into tight places too. a #1 tip can be used in tight quarters.
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maubunky1
Last time I did my kid's late 90s Honda exhaust nuts, I used a 4 inch grinder with a cutoff wheel, but I can't figure out how my face survived because I was laying on the ground underneath the car with a few inches clearance above my face where the grinder was. Luckily I was wearing my coke bottle distance lens glasses instead of contacts that day because there is a tiny shard of metal permanently melted into the lens now.
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Last time I did my kid's late 90s Honda exhaust nuts, I used a 4 inch grinder with a cutoff wheel, but I can't figure out how my face survived because I was laying on the ground underneath the car with a few inches clearance above my face where the grinder was. Luckily I was wearing my coke bottle distance lens glasses instead of contacts that day because there is a tiny shard of metal permanently melted into the lens now.
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spelunkerd
A couple of generations ago I worked in a manufacturing facility and for a few months had a torch in my hand most of the day. When you mentioned how the nut can separate off if you find a cleavage plane it brought back vivid memories. Like many other skills, there's a definite learning curve, your timing needs to be spot on. I'm often impressed by your skill with a torch, it takes years to be consistently good.
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A couple of generations ago I worked in a manufacturing facility and for a few months had a torch in my hand most of the day. When you mentioned how the nut can separate off if you find a cleavage plane it brought back vivid memories. Like many other skills, there's a definite learning curve, your timing needs to be spot on. I'm often impressed by your skill with a torch, it takes years to be consistently good.
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greggc8088
I worked in a Georgia shop that wouldn't rent the tanks and buy us a torch so I bought my own and rented it out to them. It is needed. Especially when the dumb ice used car sales manager gets a whim to save money and head north to the car auction.
I admire Eric's effort. I probably wouldn't spend the time fixing rusty stuff and just guy salvage yard replacement components where possible. Or new.
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I worked in a Georgia shop that wouldn't rent the tanks and buy us a torch so I bought my own and rented it out to them. It is needed. Especially when the dumb ice used car sales manager gets a whim to save money and head north to the car auction.
I admire Eric's effort. I probably wouldn't spend the time fixing rusty stuff and just guy salvage yard replacement components where possible. Or new.
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autorepair
the true liquid wrench. grew up in a auto salvage yard used torch a lot back then these days in alabama i only really need it 2 or 3 times a year. kinda like a 2000 car still is most of the time nice car in alabama most 2000 cars are in the salvage yard where you are. many times you will coment on how nice a vehicle is same car in alabama would be worthless what is rusty here is nearly new up there.
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the true liquid wrench. grew up in a auto salvage yard used torch a lot back then these days in alabama i only really need it 2 or 3 times a year. kinda like a 2000 car still is most of the time nice car in alabama most 2000 cars are in the salvage yard where you are. many times you will coment on how nice a vehicle is same car in alabama would be worthless what is rusty here is nearly new up there.
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cgmoog
I absolutely hate this method. Why Because as a DIY I don't have a torch! actually its a great method. Love to learn it just can; t justify paying rent on cylinders for jobs that I don't do often. Of course when I start working on the crusty bolt (I also live in the PRofNY) and have exhausted all of my methods (MAPP torch, air chisel, cutting disk, lots of swearing) I will wish I had old Vic to help out.
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I absolutely hate this method. Why Because as a DIY I don't have a torch! actually its a great method. Love to learn it just can; t justify paying rent on cylinders for jobs that I don't do often. Of course when I start working on the crusty bolt (I also live in the PRofNY) and have exhausted all of my methods (MAPP torch, air chisel, cutting disk, lots of swearing) I will wish I had old Vic to help out.
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ForfeMac
I honestly have no idea how I managed to get by with just a propane torch for 20 years here in MN. I got a good deal on a smith torch set about 10 years ago and haven't looked back since. Of course, I'm still running propane, because acetylene is expensive and my insurance company doesn't like it, but oxyfuel cutting is a godsend for us salt belt mechanics.
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I honestly have no idea how I managed to get by with just a propane torch for 20 years here in MN. I got a good deal on a smith torch set about 10 years ago and haven't looked back since. Of course, I'm still running propane, because acetylene is expensive and my insurance company doesn't like it, but oxyfuel cutting is a godsend for us salt belt mechanics.
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supercrew63
I often use my Air Chisel to loosen nuts on tie rods. I am a front end and brake mechanic at a local tire shop. And yes I actually know how to adjust camber and caster on vehicles. It actually sucks a lot that most alignment guys don't know how to adjust camber and caster any more. they set toe and take the dough. Kind of pisses me off.
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I often use my Air Chisel to loosen nuts on tie rods. I am a front end and brake mechanic at a local tire shop. And yes I actually know how to adjust camber and caster on vehicles. It actually sucks a lot that most alignment guys don't know how to adjust camber and caster any more. they set toe and take the dough. Kind of pisses me off.
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leybraith3561
. Yep, amazingly precise things can be done with some verrry aggressive tools.
Need a bit of planning, practice, a steady hand and being able to see what's happening.
Have seen a craftsman quickly produce a gorgeous cutout in a computer case using a huge, ancient angle-grinder / very worn out cutting disc.
Respect.
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. Yep, amazingly precise things can be done with some verrry aggressive tools.
Need a bit of planning, practice, a steady hand and being able to see what's happening.
Have seen a craftsman quickly produce a gorgeous cutout in a computer case using a huge, ancient angle-grinder / very worn out cutting disc.
Respect.
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wadepatton2433
First time I saw Eric split one old rusty, I knew he'd been doing it that way for a while.
As I sometimes have to remind the younger ones: It's hardly ever as easy as I make it look.
Eric is good with the torch. Simple but experience makes it easy enough after a bit.
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First time I saw Eric split one old rusty, I knew he'd been doing it that way for a while.
As I sometimes have to remind the younger ones: It's hardly ever as easy as I make it look.
Eric is good with the torch. Simple but experience makes it easy enough after a bit.
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tarasstecy9732
Hey Eric. what you did in your demo is great. After looking closely at your rusty nuts, I was just thinking that a beginner who does not have your torching skill. may have been able to heat the nuts red hot and spin them off, or at least one of them. your thoughts
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Hey Eric. what you did in your demo is great. After looking closely at your rusty nuts, I was just thinking that a beginner who does not have your torching skill. may have been able to heat the nuts red hot and spin them off, or at least one of them. your thoughts
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garysgarage3669
Great video. I don’t have a torch yet. I just did some exhaust work last week and my air hammer was the star of the show. Don’t was your money on a central pneumatic I had one. They’re totally useless. Spend a little more money and get something better.
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Great video. I don’t have a torch yet. I just did some exhaust work last week and my air hammer was the star of the show. Don’t was your money on a central pneumatic I had one. They’re totally useless. Spend a little more money and get something better.
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yeahitskimmel
Hey Eric, what size cutting tip do you use
I'd been using a torch I inherited just how I found it and it was a little tough to weild, finally cleaned off the tip to find it was sized for cutting metal up to 1in thick so I ordered a pack of 0/00/000
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Hey Eric, what size cutting tip do you use
I'd been using a torch I inherited just how I found it and it was a little tough to weild, finally cleaned off the tip to find it was sized for cutting metal up to 1in thick so I ordered a pack of 0/00/000
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MBoyer-ng6ok
Rust Never Sleeps (Neil Young. In Eric's area it (rust) also stays awake, drinking energy drinks and chain smoking, working nonstop to corrode every inch of the underside of South Main customer's cars. But it's no match for the Jedi torch technique.
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Rust Never Sleeps (Neil Young. In Eric's area it (rust) also stays awake, drinking energy drinks and chain smoking, working nonstop to corrode every inch of the underside of South Main customer's cars. But it's no match for the Jedi torch technique.
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turner0224
Eric, you and Vick have spent many many hours together, you guys have developed the exact relationship an accomplished surgeon develops with his scalpel with the same accuracy. You guys have many more years of rustic surgeries to perform ha ha ha.
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Eric, you and Vick have spent many many hours together, you guys have developed the exact relationship an accomplished surgeon develops with his scalpel with the same accuracy. You guys have many more years of rustic surgeries to perform ha ha ha.
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endall6783
Did you not want the moon and stars I know you wanted that street walker red! LOL. I don't understand Miss O gave you the moon and the stars. That makes me feel like me and Miss B could still be happy being together that long YOU GO MISS O!
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Did you not want the moon and stars I know you wanted that street walker red! LOL. I don't understand Miss O gave you the moon and the stars. That makes me feel like me and Miss B could still be happy being together that long YOU GO MISS O!
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A51Zombie
I always have trouble with swollen nuts. Never seem to have just the right size tool to bust a swollen nut off. I picked up some the not as good as Mac RBRT Craftsman wrenches. And they have actually done a decent job several times.
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I always have trouble with swollen nuts. Never seem to have just the right size tool to bust a swollen nut off. I picked up some the not as good as Mac RBRT Craftsman wrenches. And they have actually done a decent job several times.
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