tip of the week, lug nut update

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

here's my tip of the week - never sieze.  get some and use it.

i just finished replacing the trailing arms on my spider (with the earlier
ones).  the last time i had this stuff apart was probably 15 years ago.
everything had been never siezed then, and it came apart today with very
little effort, and no cursing required.

unlike the lug nuts i was dealing with last week.  so far, the winner is -
nobody!  it's not completely off yet.  the chiselers were probably the
closest (we'll never know if the welders were right, since i don't have a
welder), but even chiseling didn't get it off.  i ended up chipping away
most of the lug, trying to get it to break, but it didn't.  right now i'm
left with just the bottom tapered part of the lug holding the wheel on.
honorable mention goes to the esteemed john hertzman (of north carolina),
who also suggested drilling if nothing else worked.

had the last person to have the wheels off used never sieze, i wouldn't be
complaining right now.

so, whether to make things easy for yourself next time around, or to make
things easy for some future owner, use never sieze.

bs

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