Brake Disk change

Do you think this indicates anything?

 

No. Not allen /key/, allen *driver*, aka hex driver. My personal
preference is for Snap-On items, but I understand that Halfords Pro
measure up quite well. They take the form of a short piece of hard
hexagonal bar set into a specialised 3/8" drive socket, moreorless.
Stick your ratchet/extension/tommy bar on the end and have at the
fucker.

 

Pip wrote

I got a set of them somewhere. Never used them. Odds on the one I want
is not in the box. Come on a stick don't they, like a tree sort of
thing?

Snap-On is fine if some other **** is paying for it and the van
conveniently comes round to your door every Friday. Ordinary mortals
like me have to make do by default with what they have found in the boot
of the various cars they owned over the years and Halfrauds stuff to
replace lost items.

I fully intend to do so.

Although the temptation to play with my rarely used handy butane torch
thing that has mainly spent it's long life standing on top of a tin of
white boot polish in the cupboard means that I may not be forcing it too
hard. Shame to waste an opportunity really I always say.

 

Pip said...

I might butt in here and mention that the brand new Clarke set I bought
two weeks ago snapped the 6mm on the first time of using them. I wasn't
even tightening the bolt up, merely nipping it up before all the others
were in place.

 

If you are going to use snap-on anything it should be hex bits in
smaller sizes.
Some allen bolts are made of fairly hard material, if it's a recessed
head and you round it out it becomes a chore to remove the remains.

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel emerged from their own little world to say

Oh good. Free McCulloch beer and free date cake.

 

It's lonely in the killfile?

 

Use a blow torch to heat the bolts up until they're vf hot, allow to
cool and remove easily.

 

Oh, letting it cool rather than trying to undo when hot? is this to
break the threadlock/corrosion bond I guess?

 

Wicked Weasel wrote

That and/or any residual stickiness from previous thread lock compounds.

 

Definitely the way to go, particularly if they have been reassembled
with loctite before. I managed to shear off the square bit on a 1/4 inch
socket adapter once trying to get a socket head screw out. When I
finally got the bastard out it looked suspiciously as if a previous
owner had used super-epoxy rather than loctite. A little judiciously
applied local heat from a fine flame works wonders to hopefully denature
any 'glue' that may have been used.

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The Older Gentleman wrote

Only you.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie

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Exactly.

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The manufacturer's destructions usually specify that you should
install new bolts when mounting a new brake disc. This is sure to be
the best plan, but few of us bother.

 

Just to scare you, I snapped a 6mm Halfords Pro allen bit a little
while ago trying to undo a pedal from a pushbike crank. Sliced my
finger down to the bone the snapped off bit did.

Halfords did replace it without a problem though.

 

I know the NHS is short of money, but outsourcing to Halfords seems a tad
extreme.

Ali

 

Ben () gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Not sure I'd trust a Halfrauds finger...

 

Superglue from Halfords might have done a better job of keeping it
closed as well.

 

The Older Gentleman emerged from their own little world to say

I'm in the habit of stashing a spare credit card in a vehicle crevice for
foreign trips.

I'm pretty sure I left a Goldfish VISA card in the boot of my Mazda when I
sold it in 2000. As I hadn't used the card for years I only missed it when
the bank started writing to ask if I was ever likely to use the card again.
I didn't reply so they cancelled the account.

It was fortunate that the new owner of the car was either very honest or
had not looked in the tool roll.

 

I know it's easier to get and they open late but I think Draper Expert
stuff is much better while being cheaper than snap-on. Most good
industrial hardware stores keep their stuff and they have a new (crap)
website www.drapertools.com/b2c/start-page.html