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Re: Trailer Maintenence

To: LGMCAFEE@aol.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Trailer Maintenence
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:10:55 -0700 (PDT)
  LGMCAFEE@aol.com wrote: . . . .after heating it red was to throw it in a 
bucket of water, when he took it out of the water you could run the nut off by 
hand. True story!!! Larry Mac

 

Yep.  Way, way back when I was a very young fireman, we had a very old mechanic 
on the department.  We had a 1917 American laFrance fire truck we were 
restoring.  He'd heat rusted nuts until they were red, then hit them with a 
little blast from a CO2 bottle.  Every once came off without sweat.

Dick J
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