Cavi Mike wrote on 10/11/12 at 10:05:58:justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/11/12 at 02:19:49:I used a L shaped Allen, but, I put a 1/4" drive deep socket on it, with an extension, held a bind on it & spanked it with a body hammer, effectively making an impact. No heat,I had no idea,,
I have no idea what you're talking about but if you're hitting it with a hammer, once again you're putting side-forces against the bolt. It's wrong. Period. The point of the extension is not to make the bar longer and to give you more leverage. That's not an extension in the first place, that's a cheater bar. The point of the extension is to raise you off of the head of the screw which automatically makes you support the head of the ratchet with your other hand. In that position you're now exerting twisting forces against the bolt - no more side forces.
I know what Im talking about, done it many, many times, Increased torque in some places just = busted bolt, I create the same type of twisting force an impact does, using a socket & extension as a cheater on the allen, putting some tension on it, then, striking it quickly with a light hammer where the end of the allen is in the socket, Im not creating side forces , just twisting & theyre applied with the hammer on top of the tension required to see the strain in the allen, just slightly,
I have been a mechanic at the Western Company, working on big stuff, a copier repairman, working on delicate stuff, Ive fixed slide projectors, fax machines, shredders, cash registers, calculators, oil field pumps, done body repair on bent cars , changed the frames on 2 pickups & have the equivalent of an associates in electronics , courtesy USAF. I can cook, clean & sew & have designed a tool for catching a fish downhole on a well when 2 engineers failed to get it. HOnestly, I dont see me needing anyone telling me why what I did wont work, or is a bad way to go about it, But thatnk you for your input.
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