That was your problem, wasn't it?

Post #217,866 by CRConrad 8/6/05 6:20:27 PM Reply	That was your problem, wasn't it? The original fucking post that started this bloody thread -- that was by one mr William Oxley, and was all about his HAVING TROUBLE OPENING A FILLER PLUG _W_I_T_H_ _A_ _W_R_E_N_C_H_, was it not? I mean, please correct the Hell outta me if I'm wrong... Or re-read your own goddamn post, fer fuck's sake! Sheesh. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #217,868 by boxley 8/6/05 6:50:04 PM Reply	and your reply to weld a rod to the bolt was? :-) Just call me Mr. Lynch \\ Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #217,873 by CRConrad 8/6/05 7:18:08 PM Reply	Huh? WTF is that question supposed to mean??? It was a frigging SOLUTION to the problem of not being able to turn the plug with a wrench, of course. (i.e, just turn it with the welded-on piece of pipe in stead!) What the bleeding 'Ell did you think it was? [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #217,874 by Another Scott 8/6/05 7:23:00 PM Reply	One could read it as 'weld a pipe onto the plug' if one ... were not paying attention. Sometimes one can be too brief. FWIW. Cheers, Scott.
Post #217,876 by CRConrad 8/6/05 7:40:11 PM Reply	Uhh... Yes - that is how one should read it. 'Coz that's what I meant! What did you think -- "weld a pipe onto the wrench"?!? Naah, that's fecking useless -- the problem is, with a stuck plug (or bolt, or nut), the wrench will slip off when you apply enough force. (By slipping a fat-enough pipe over the shaft of it [the wrench, this time], for instance -- no welding necessary.) Welded-on pipes, OTOH, never slip off their plugs/bolts/nuts. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #217,879 by Another Scott 8/6/05 8:00:03 PM Reply	Um... Welding on a pipe long enough for good leverage means that you would only be able to rotate it ~ 1/2 a turn. It would bang against the ground and/or the underside of the car. I guess one could weld a short stub on the plug then slide a length of pipe over that for leverage - maybe that's what you meant? But the idea of welding anything onto a plug on a differential while it's still on the car (there under the gas tank...) sounds like a rather risky thing to do to me. If the torch and/or arc slips a bit then whoops the plug could be welded into the boss. Then it would get really interesting... Would you do something like that on your 1886 Volvo? Cheers, Scott.
Post #217,883 by Andrew Grygus 8/6/05 8:33:05 PM Reply	Gas tanks & welding . . . The standard techinque is to fill the tank entirely full with gasoline so there is no air in it. Without air there can be no explosion, just a little fire, and that's what you're already playing with anyway. Welding directly to gas tanks is done this way (though it does take some balls to trust the physics). [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #217,948 by folkert 8/7/05 10:05:11 AM 8/7/05 10:11:03 AM Reply	Watched it done on aluminum diesel tanks The guy said he did it all the time, one of the few people that specializes in it on this side of the state. It was scary as hell until we realized it was just as he said as we watched him heli-arc a 2 foot long crack in the tank. But then we still didn't come from behind the 1.5 foot thick reinforced concrete wall. If you know what I mean? The thing is, the company couldn;t afford to have this truck out of service for long. We had put a crack patch on the tank, for a few weeks. The truck had gone through an inspection point, was flagged as "exempt from service" for the crack. Until it was fixed or replaced. Since the tank was a 2000 Gallon custom job, cost was very big to replace it and would be weeks before the replacement would come. The weld was a 100% penetration weld (I don't know how he was able to keep it from melting through and leaking) and because of the diesel fuel cooling it, the weld was able to be ground down and polished to match the rest of the tank. You could only detect it if you really look, as the aluminum filler rod he used was a special oxygen free flux coated. To this day, I WILL NOT WELD ON FULL FUEL TANKS. He said any fuel except Liquid Propane was doable. I can understand that. [edit] Oh yeah, this was when I was working as an "afternoon diesel mechanic/night truck fueler/saturday truck washer" for a logictics, storage and TL/LTL trucking firm here in Grand Rapids, called Van's Delivery. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [image\|http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg\|\|\|\|] Edited by folkert Aug. 7, 2005, 10:11:03 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #217,921 by Steve Lowe 8/7/05 1:10:54 AM Reply	ICLRPD Would you do something like that on your 1886 Volvo? -- Steve
Post #218,000 by CRConrad 8/7/05 5:20:39 PM Reply	Of course; through, not over; and of course again. Scott de Katt observes: Welding on a pipe long enough for good leverage means that you would only be able to rotate it ~ 1/2 a turn. It would bang against the ground and/or the underside of the car. Yeah, obviously. That's why I said, "a piece of" pipe. I guess one could weld a short stub on the plug then slide a length of pipe over that for leverage - maybe that's what you meant? Exactly. Well, almost exactly -- I'd stick something through my piece of pipe, thereby utilising its full length, as opposed to at most half of it that I could use if I tried to slide something over it. But the idea of welding anything onto a plug on a differential while it's still on the car (there under the gas tank...) sounds like a rather risky thing to do to me. Feh! If the torch and/or arc slips a bit then whoops the plug could be welded into the boss. Then it would get really interesting... Bah -- that's what angle grinders are for. That's what we'd use to remove the pipe anyway... Not necessarily waiting until it was screwed all the way out. Would you do something like that on your 1886 Volvo? Fuck, yeah; that's the model we -- or OK, my Dad (I used to suck at welding; still am no hotshot at it) -- did it to a few times. Then again, there's inches and inches, maybe as many as six, between the diff filler plug and the tank, which is behind, not above, the rear axle on that model. At least if you've lifted it up and put supports under the bodywork, as opposed to the rear axle; then the axle would hang down lower than the tank and give you acres of space to work in. So... Fuck, yeah. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #218,005 by Another Scott 8/7/05 5:38:38 PM Reply	You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Post #218,007 by CRConrad 8/7/05 5:49:17 PM Reply	Naah... You're welding facing away from the tank.

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