[A8] Total defeat... RE: [Fwd: Re: [V8] steel bolt in aluminum]

[Kent McLean]

Rich, Jack wrote:
> Only question is, I can imagine that a "snap on air hammer" is a special air hammer...
> 
> I'm now wandering around at a loss with no car project to work on, waiting to call 
> my mechanic in the morning.  I wonder how the hell they are going to get it out?  
> I bet they have the expensive air hammer.

My guess is that "snap on" is Snap-On, and that the better (professional) 
quality of the tool might have had the cajones to undo the bolt. But that was 
then, and this is now.

I've seen a video of a talented welder somehow heating up the bolt, then hitting 
the hot bolt with pure oxygen? or acetylene? and the bolt just vaporizes, 
leaving behind untouched threads.  It may have been a MIG welder, and the arc of 
the rod vaporizes it. I tried Goolging for it but came up empty.

Here's a few more interesting examples...

Here's one using a candle; I don't think the nut was that rusted.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwKHSvKfnHI>

Heat, and lots of it:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSZncjnzVs&feature=related>

Magnetic induction:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM6pkdl0JhM>

I did find a lot of videos for something called an herbal vaporizer, which 
doesn't apply.

-- 
Kent McLean
1990 V8 w/5-speed and other mods
1991 200 TQA #3, with mods
1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
gone: '91 200 TQA x2, '94 100 S Avant, '89 200 TQ "Bad Puppy"