[SEL] Gib Key removal

[Ray Freeman Portable Line Boring]

Weld the stud first. That gives you the drilling option if it don't work.It 
would be harder the other way around.I would be using the torch as a last 
resrt only. Once you start with that there are no more options after that!



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Strobel" <Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com>
To: "SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:33 PM
Subject: [SEL] Gib Key removal


>  Yea, me again :-(
>
> Well we have a 5/8 x 3" Gib that is having fun with us.  A huge slide 
> hammer hasn't budged it, nor has a tapered punch.  I would think that the 
> slide hammer would extert a humungus force on the key but there's where 
> the mystery for me starts.  So is it time to drill, tap, and use a bottle 
> jack puller like Ron Haskell did or use the welder and weld on a stud?  Or 
> should we just blow out the key with a gas axe?
>
> Havin' a ball in Mt. with the ole iron,
>
> RickinMt.
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