Rusty Bolts

Have you tried a little percussive lubrication? Often works wonders. Basically smack them with a hammer from every angle you can, the shock will often free them up.

Alternatively apply heat via a blowtorch, you can get small ones that run off a gas cannister from halfords and suchlike. In the event of total patience breakdown this can also be used to set fire to the trailer, solving the problem another way.

in article snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, Chris Naylor at snipped-for-privacy@pobice.com wrote on 11/4/05 11:09 pm:

Grind the head off and tap out the remaines.

Rory Manton

It's Not Pink. It's Telemagenta

Get a can of plus gas... it's the muts nuts for this sort of thing.

Failing that some diesel and paraffin mixed.

Apply, go down the pub, get bladdered, come back tomorrow, try your stuck item again. If it doesn't work at least you got a Beer out of it :o)

Lee D

Wish I'd read this one afore venturing into th egarden with large tool of persuasion and angle grinder!

Applied lots more WD40 last night, this morning buggers still wouldn't budge so applied hammer to them multiple times - still no budge!

Applied angle grinder to them - by eck! That took some doing! 3 Blades later and 4 bolts removed! Best tactic seemed to be cut away to shaft from 2 sides and then break the rest off by hammering a metal wedge thing down between the head and the thing the bolts were holding on.

Cheers for all the info....

Depending on bolt diameter, you can drill the head off as well.

Kalev

Or expressed even more succinctly: the ducks guts!

Fantastic stuff

Richard

Can't fault your logic there :oD

Regards. Mark.