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Title: tight head set
Post by: Badbaldie on January 29, 2011, 03:05 PM

got an old frame and forks cant get top nut off a tange head set , its tight as fook  >:( drowned it in wd 40 but try as i might it wont budge . not bothered to much about head set as im gona replace it but i got to get it off first ... HELP.

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: brettypeeps on January 29, 2011, 03:42 PM

Use an angle grinder and take your time. Grind two of the side ( opposite) until they get thin then back to a spanner and it should snap.  Just gind slowly once you are through the worst of the metal you could swap to a course file so as no to damage the forks. :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: brettypeeps on January 29, 2011, 03:43 PM

Try hitting it with a hammer to shock the corrosion into breaking

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: MartyC on January 29, 2011, 03:45 PM

put a wheel into the forks and stand with the wheel between your knees, use a large pair of adjustables (not a swan neck) or a pair of Stilsons and undo it  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: waza04 on January 29, 2011, 03:47 PM

there's no substitute for big amount of leverage...................  :crazy2:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/xx68/waza04/bikes/918098479_838713f6d0.jpg)

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: ozone on January 29, 2011, 04:06 PM

Quote from: waza04 on January 29, 2011, 03:47 PM

there's no substitute for big amount of leverage...................  :crazy2:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/xx68/waza04/bikes/918098479_838713f6d0.jpg)

Nice muscle-top.   :-*

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: brettypeeps on January 29, 2011, 05:20 PM

Heat aswell get a blow torch on it  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: 58 delray on January 29, 2011, 05:23 PM

you could try a nut splitter, available from decent motor factors  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on January 30, 2011, 10:23 AM

just smash it up man...ffs

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: Badbaldie on January 30, 2011, 09:38 PM

thanks for all the advice lads. in the end wheel on, heat on gently tighten, well tighten even more. than eventually got it off  :daumenhoch: so some TW Airlines T maid had used some kind of lock tight /metal glue or something  :uglystupid2: anyway its off now and threads on the forks are ok

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on January 30, 2011, 09:47 PM

should have smashed it

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: brettypeeps on January 30, 2011, 09:47 PM

Quote from: Badbaldie on January 30, 2011, 09:38 PM

thanks for all the advice lads. in the end wheel on, heat on gently tighten, well tighten even more. than eventually got it off  :daumenhoch: so some TW Airlines T maid had used some king of lock tight /metal glue or something  :uglystupid2: anyway its off now and threads on the forks are ok

Nice 1 :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: tight head set
Post by: MartyC on January 31, 2011, 10:57 AM

 :4_17_5: