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Torque Multiplier Loosens Stuck Bolts
Get rid of that cheater pipe, says Graham Keeney, and make your own torque multiplier to break loose rusted bolts.
  "This is a lot safer; it doesn't slip off," says the retired International Falls, Minn., trucker. "You can really pull with it."
  Keeney needed something to break loose rusted trailer spring U-bolts. So he purchased a 24-in. long 1/2-in. socket drive breaker and removed the drive at the end. Then he cut off two 1/4-in. hardened steel chain links and cut out 5/8-in. gaps in one side of each of the links. He used 7018 rod and welded one chain on the end of the breaker and the other one 4-in. back.
  The gap is just enough to slip in the handle of open and box end wrenches and twist them in securely, Keeney explains. He's used his homemade tool with 3/4 to 1 1/8-in. wrenches.
  He hasn't come across any bolt that he couldn't break open with his torque multiplier, although he sometimes uses a little heat on badly rusted nuts and bolts.
  "It was very simple to make, and it does the job," Keeney says.
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Graham Keeney, 3913 Highway 11, International Falls, Minn. 56649 (ph 218 283-2360).


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2010 - Volume #34, Issue #5