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hi,
longest i have ever left something soaking with plus-gas? 2 days!
a combination of laziness & fear of a sheared stud made me put plus-gas on 2 nights in a row.(fr/sat)
still sheared on the sun. morning though....
sorry cant help 
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Depends which way round the threads are.
If they are horizontal or pointing downwards, I would make a cup-shaped retainer out of blue-tack or duct tape to keep the threads submerged in the penetrating fluid.
24 hours of that should see some results - otherwise, I would carefully cut the nut parallel with the threads with a Dremel or hacksaw, and tap the bits off.
If you can replace the bolt and nut, go for a stainless version.
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If you get it free work it in and out bit buy bit otherwise likely to snapp head off
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| Posted: 14:11 - 22 Dec 2014 Post subject: Re: Plusgas - How Long To Call it Quits? |
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| b422063 wrote: | How long would you give the bolt to soak before calling it quits and attempting to carefully grind it off? |
Me?
If I have a can of plus-gas on the shelf; might give it long enough to go get it.. find the kids have used it all to oil their push-bike chains.. and reach straight for the dremel!
IF the can's still full.. might give it a squib, and leave it log eough to make a cup of coffee.. give it a tweek... go do something else, give it another tweek... clear up for the night.. give it last squib, try it again in the morning, before I plug in the Dremmel!
Unless its on a Land-Rover, in which case the angle-grinder would have probably come out before the spanners, and my only concession to 'not being too brutal' would be it would be the 4 1/2" Mr Disk-gusted, not the full 10" Mr Very Angry-Grinder!
When I had shared work-shop, space thugh, I was quite facilitated by Donald's tenacity in restoring a 1950's AJS.. he did on occasion literally spend weeks, persevering with Plus-Gas, heat & tweek.
He'd have a little collection of stubborn fasteners, all waiting his attention every evening, and before getting on with a job; would go round each, giving them a little tweek, warming them up a little, giving them a tweek then a squib, then a tweek, and then putting them back till tomorrow...
ISTR a small celebration over a stud, which he got out whole after six moths of perseverance and nightly attention.....
I don't think any more right minded person would have persevered so long, and his own defence was a little 'shakey.. apparently it was a 'strange' stud with a metric thread one end and a witworth on the other or something like that, you just couldn't buy...
"Yes Donald, but you are a time served 'Machinist'.. and that thing has been sat n a tuppaware on a LATHE the whole time!"
"I know... I COULD have made one... I suppose.... B..B..B...BUT! Wouldn't be the same!. Would't be ORIGINAL!"
"It sits inside a gearbox! WHO the heck is going to know!?"
"I would!" he said. And I guess he had a point.....
But with tubs of HTS Metric nuts and bolts on the shelf, if it doesn't come out readily enough with a spanner, I figure its probably not going to go back in, its going to get replaced any-way, so why try saving a bolt that's going to get binned? So only thing tempering my eagerness to cut, at the first hit of non-co-operation, is how much harm might be done to whatever the bolts going through.
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