[DeTomaso] Galled stainless fasteners

[Dave Londry]

Now that's one really left-handed drill.
dave

Larry - Ohio Time Corp wrote:
> Back 100 years ago when I was in school I remember a film strip showing a
> process to remove studs that have been snapped off in 911 blocks. It looked
> like a plasma torch in a tube, on a drill press machine, that burned the
> stud out with out killing the block.
>
> Jack you know what this is all about...
>
> Larry (I can look it up) - Cleveland
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
> Behalf Of Charles Engles
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:04 PM
> To: 'Dave Londry'
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Galled stainless fasteners
>
> Dear Dave,
>
>
>         I was optimistic through the early phases of the attempted repair on
> Tim's car.   I was optimistic even though a *very* experienced
> machinist-mechanic proclaimed, "They'll never get it off.  It's stainless
> steel."   When every attempt ended in frustration and even having the
> culprit fully exposed on the work bench didn't help, I finally appreciated
> the old mechanic's opinion.   That's all I know.  I did find the comments
> about the metallurgy of galled stainless fasteners being different very
> interesting.    You will have to let us know the end of your story!
>
>
>              Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Londry [mailto:davel at emspace.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:21 AM
> To: Charles Engles
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Galled stainless fasteners
>
> Say Charles,
> Aren't you the perpetual optimist?
> What happened?
> dave
>
>  Charles Engles wrote:
>   
>> Dear Dave,
>>
>>
>>             This sounds remarkably like Tim Tytle's experience.  He had
>> fancy aluminum pulleys secured with pretty stainless bolts.
>>     
> Unfortunately,
>   
>> the bolts holding the crank pulley on the harmonic balancer were
>>     
> improperly
>   
>> installed, resulting in the steel bolts coming a bit loose and turning the
>> holes in the aluminum pulley into slots.  When the problem was finally
>> found, only one or two of the galled stainless bolts could be removed.
>> Ultimately, the balancer had to be removed and even with the pulley and
>> balancer and galled bolts on the work bench one bolt couldn't be removed.
>> New pulley. New balancer. Normal grade 8 bolts. No problems now.
>>
>>             It appears that you may have a real headache on your hands.
>>
>>   
>>     
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