Thread: Freeze your nuts off

There are two superb industrial products you use in these circumstances. Chem-Search Yield to get the fasteners undone, and Loctite nickel anti-seize to use when you re-assemble them. This will ensure you can get them off next time without using the Yield or the "freeze and release". Industrial fitters are better acquainted with problems and product than motor parts replacers (motor mechanics).

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

There are two superb industrial products you use in these circumstances. Chem-Search Yield to get the fasteners undone, and Loctite nickel anti-seize to use when you re-assemble them. This will ensure you can get them off next time without using the Yield or the "freeze and release". Industrial fitters are better acquainted with problems and product than motor parts replacers (motor mechanics).

Get stuffed Brian, I find that highly offensive........

Industrial fitters are no better or no worse than a motor mechanic, they are just 2 separate trades and being lowered to a motor parts replacer after a 4 year apprenticeship and the last 12 years in my trade is like calling you my TA as all you know is nuts and bolts.

It is just not the case.

Originally Posted by Stuuu

Is the loctite stuff better than lanolin?

They are 2 products that are in this case used for the same thing but the difference is that the lanoline product you need to leave to soak in for a little while and the Freeze stuff is nearly instantanious.

I have found that the freezey stuff works best on smaller nuts and bolts as said before you need to do it for a long time on bigger stuff so you use a lot more but is still works.

The Lanoline products also stops things rusting again for a fair while but doesnt really attract dust.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

There are two superb industrial products you use in these circumstances. Chem-Search Yield to get the fasteners undone, and Loctite nickel anti-seize to use when you re-assemble them. This will ensure you can get them off next time without using the Yield or the "freeze and release". Industrial fitters are better acquainted with problems and product than motor parts replacers (motor mechanics).

Yield is stocked in the store at work

My mate started his apprenticeship as a mech the same day as I, in our third year, I had to go and fit the dizzy and set the point n his old mans 60 series, because it was "electrical" and he didn;t know

Mechanics make good nuts and bolts fitters, but generally don;t make good fitters (pumps, turbines........anything with rotateing mass) as they're keen for decent coin, as oppossed to a mechanics wage

There are always exceptions to the rule, although not often

Ive met mechanics that shouldnt have their papers as well as Ive met fitter and turners that couldnt use a vernier.

Ive met an industrial fitter that didnt know the difference between whitwurth (sp?) and UNC and Ive met a plumber that plumbed a drain up hill and an electrician whos house burned down from and electrical fault.

There are people who slip through the cracks in any trade, you guys are using a very broad brush comenting like that.

If you learned what they are trying to teach you at trade school then you should know your trade but branding all of the people in that trade as inferior is just down right rude.

Originally Posted by mcrover

Ive met mechanics that shouldnt have their papers as well as Ive met fitter and turners that couldnt use a vernier.

Ive met an industrial fitter that didnt know the difference between whitwurth (sp?) and UNC and Ive met a plumber that plumbed a drain up hill and an electrician whos house burned down from and electrical fault.

There are people who slip through the cracks in any trade, you guys are using a very broad brush comenting like that.

If you learned what they are trying to teach you at trade school then you should know your trade but branding all of the people in that trade as inferior is just down right rude.

Have you "really' met people of such?

Much like calling someone a penis head, multiple times

Originally Posted by rovercare

Have you "really' met people of such?

Much like calling someone a penis head, multiple times

Yep worked with a couple of them

And for the last bit...........that was the point......

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

There are two superb industrial products you use in these circumstances. Chem-Search Yield to get the fasteners undone, and Loctite nickel anti-seize to use when you re-assemble them. This will ensure you can get them off next time without using the Yield or the "freeze and release".

I have used Yield in the past. It is fantastic. But I have had a lot of trouble trying to buy it. Nobody (and apparently thier suppliers) seems to have heard of it. Do you know who is an agent to sell it?
Aaron.