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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
94ssd:
See, I preferred when people thought it would be for all the wild sex a group of people who sacrificed an entire weekend to produce a show called Urinetown: The Musical would be guaranteed to have.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 18 Oct 2014, 11:36 ---Don't know my own strength...
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You. Broke. A. Stilson. :psyduck: I showed my Dad your pic. He didn't believe it either.
My father always insists that, whenever a family member takes on a new-to-us motor vehicle, we test to make sure the jack works, the wheel-brace fits the wheel nuts (don't laugh, I've seen a brand new vehicle where it didn't), and the fastenings have not been tightened by a mad gorilla with a spider spanner (I don't know what they're called in America) so that they're impossible to undo. When I was in my first year at uni, he bought a used Subaru wagon, and since he expected me to be driving it, he insisted I be able to change a wheel, so he dragged me into his testing process.
We went out into the driveway and put the wheel-brace on the first nut. I couldn't shift it, and nor could my Dad. So he got out a spider. Still no joy. Next came a ring-spanner. Nope. Thumping on the end of the spanner with a rubber mallet? Nope. Put a roughly metre-long length of scaffold-pole over the ring spanner, and pull on that as a lever? Nope. Holding onto the roof-rack, I climbed on the pole and shuffled to the end. Nope. I bounced up and down on the pole. BANG! The nut finally surrendered. My Dad thought we might have sheared off the stud, but luckily we got away with it. After that, he put releasing fluid on all the nuts and we left it overnight before trying them again. Which is what we should have done in the first place, but sometimes city folk are just as hillbilly as hillbillies.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Akima on 19 Oct 2014, 16:13 ---a mad gorilla with a spider spanner (I don't know what they're called in America) so that they're impossible to undo.
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Well, of course (as you tell below) the first thing is to have your own spider. But the problem is not those, where you "only" have to be as strong as them, but the pneumatic hammer nut-tighteners that they use at the tyre-changing places.
GarandMarine:
We call a spider spanner a tire iron in the U.S.
I am not surprised Carl broke his Stilson, I have seen tools of every manufacturer shatter before, especially after years of service.
jwhouk:
Funny, when Kugai jokes about lug wrenches, that image is what I imagine.
I bet what happened, Akima, is that whomever sold the Subaru to your dad used a powered wrench - ala NASCAR pit crews - to tighten the lug nuts.
That is the best and fastest way of breaking the prongs off the wheel, though.
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