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Re: screwed up crank shaft pulley allen bolt...



Oliver Seiler wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, drew wrote:
> 
> > > - chisel and heavy hammering (oh my poor chisel!)
> >
> > Your poor chisel?  Man, they're light little bucket bolts, you don't have
> > to use a 10 lb sledgehammer on them...!  A 10 oz ball-peen works fine for
> > me - much easier to swing in those tight areas.  It's not the force so
> > much as the jar that breaks them loose.  Try it and you'll see... :)
> 
> But, you see, I actually use my chisel for woodworking, so the idea of
> taking that fine edge I spend so long getting honed, and banging it
> against a metal bolt with a hammer, well, that's just sacrilegious ;)
> 
> -Oliver

O.,

Get a Metal working chisel. Save your wood tools for stuff that grows on
trees.

TBerk

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