Have you ever seen a nut this tight.. 🥜

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Edited Date/Time 8/1/2020 3:44pm
This thing was so tight that it rounded out the axel block and just started spinning, then we welded a bar to the nut so it wouldn’t spin and that broke, and this was the final solution


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Boomslang 7/27/2020 1:07am
7/27/2020 1:07am
I came across plenty seized nuts when I worked in a bike shop. A little bit of heat on the nut would have made your life a lot easier.
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rongi#401 7/27/2020 1:26am
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Boomslang wrote:
I came across plenty seized nuts when I worked in a bike shop. A little bit of heat on the nut would have made your life...
I came across plenty seized nuts when I worked in a bike shop. A little bit of heat on the nut would have made your life a lot easier.
We. Tried. It. All. Silly
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rongi#401 7/27/2020 1:28am
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There was plenty of liquid wrench and torch going on in between each attempt
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Deja New 7/27/2020 1:47am
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Did you try showing it a pic of your foot like the ones you showed us? It might have jumped off all by itself and ran and hid..... JK I think I would have gone that way too.
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SEEMEFIRST 7/27/2020 3:19am
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Looks like the axle was toast anyway.
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captmoto 7/27/2020 10:58am
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Had that on my 99 YZ400. I got a Dremel cutoff wheel between the axle nut and washer to cut the axle but your method looks like it might have been faster.
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GuyB 7/27/2020 11:59am
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Looked like galling on the threads.
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JM485 7/27/2020 12:19pm
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This is why you use antiseize on your nuts kids. . .
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rongi#401 7/27/2020 12:20pm
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Disclaimer I just bought this bike and was taking it apart to check/ lube bearings, don’t pitchfork me
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zlowery 7/27/2020 1:03pm
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I've had that happen on a brand new 2014 yz250f. Rode it at a track and went to tighten the chain when I got home. Same thing, rotated through the aluminum axle block on the other side. Final solution was the same cutting the axle.

I dont think it had anything to do with over tightening... Lack of grease.. little oxidation.. I've seen stranger things happen.
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MZ193 7/27/2020 1:25pm
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Who the fuck torques to spec axles?
The dinamometric key is in my arm😂
Sry i'm too poor to buy one.
Same for my clamps.
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bustinnuts! 7/27/2020 3:28pm
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MZ193 wrote:
Who the fuck torques to spec axles?
The dinamometric key is in my arm😂
Sry i'm too poor to buy one.
Same for my clamps.
Makes a difference on bike feel
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rongi#401 7/27/2020 4:51pm
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Deja New wrote:
Did you try showing it a pic of your foot like the ones you showed us? It might have jumped off all by itself and ran...
Did you try showing it a pic of your foot like the ones you showed us? It might have jumped off all by itself and ran and hid..... JK I think I would have gone that way too.
That didn’t work either
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JWalkowiak951 7/27/2020 7:00pm
7/27/2020 7:00pm
Had to remove some nuts on a cylinder head today at work that were torqued to 2,130 ft/lbs does that count?
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Oldschool 7/29/2020 7:41pm
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Watched the "Head of Eng." at work put his kids bicycle crank into a vice on a bridgeport and then with a open end wrench and a 3 foot pipe "Get that pedal off".....L.H. thread.

(Head of ENG. was back in the day the softball coach of the owners kids and at one point a drill press operator.
That's life ) Wink
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Oldschool wrote:
Watched the "Head of Eng." at work put his kids bicycle crank into a vice on a bridgeport and then with a open end wrench and...
Watched the "Head of Eng." at work put his kids bicycle crank into a vice on a bridgeport and then with a open end wrench and a 3 foot pipe "Get that pedal off".....L.H. thread.

(Head of ENG. was back in the day the softball coach of the owners kids and at one point a drill press operator.
That's life ) Wink
In my college's machine shop years ago I watched with amusement as 4 students and a shop aid tried like hell to loosen up the bottom bracket of an older Specialized bike. Wrench wouldn't do it, drill wouldn't do it, and finally after they were about to snap the damn thing apart with an impact I suggested that it might be a left hand thread. Surprise, came right off!Laughing
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RalphS 7/30/2020 2:40am
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Oldschool wrote:
Watched the "Head of Eng." at work put his kids bicycle crank into a vice on a bridgeport and then with a open end wrench and...
Watched the "Head of Eng." at work put his kids bicycle crank into a vice on a bridgeport and then with a open end wrench and a 3 foot pipe "Get that pedal off".....L.H. thread.

(Head of ENG. was back in the day the softball coach of the owners kids and at one point a drill press operator.
That's life ) Wink
JM485 wrote:
In my college's machine shop years ago I watched with amusement as 4 students and a shop aid tried like hell to loosen up the bottom...
In my college's machine shop years ago I watched with amusement as 4 students and a shop aid tried like hell to loosen up the bottom bracket of an older Specialized bike. Wrench wouldn't do it, drill wouldn't do it, and finally after they were about to snap the damn thing apart with an impact I suggested that it might be a left hand thread. Surprise, came right off!Laughing
They called for them.

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JWalkowiak951 7/30/2020 7:55am
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Oldschool wrote:
Watched the "Head of Eng." at work put his kids bicycle crank into a vice on a bridgeport and then with a open end wrench and...
Watched the "Head of Eng." at work put his kids bicycle crank into a vice on a bridgeport and then with a open end wrench and a 3 foot pipe "Get that pedal off".....L.H. thread.

(Head of ENG. was back in the day the softball coach of the owners kids and at one point a drill press operator.
That's life ) Wink
Similar story here. I work at a refinery in the machine shop as a “machinist specialist”. Most days I just do oil changes in pumps but there are days we have to blow engineers minds and remake whatever is broke. We were rebuilding a centrifugal compressor (multi million dollar at that) and we had a specialty contractor come in to help us rebuild them. They’ve done it “a thousand times”. The foreman of the job was complaining they couldn’t get the lock nut for the one bearing loose. We asked “are you sure it’s not left handed thread?” Nope absolutely not! So we made him a longer spanner wrench so he had more leverage. Tightened that sum B!tch till it ripped the threads out of the lock nut. Incredible
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EriCS1991 7/31/2020 11:20pm
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This guys must be in his seventh year of marriage...
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barrs211 8/1/2020 3:44pm
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Boomslang wrote:
I came across plenty seized nuts when I worked in a bike shop. A little bit of heat on the nut would have made your life...
I came across plenty seized nuts when I worked in a bike shop. A little bit of heat on the nut would have made your life a lot easier.
rongi#401 wrote:
We. Tried. It. All. Silly
Should of used a oxy acetylene torch on it mate. Can’t be tight if it’s a liquid!

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