[TowerTalk] Al to Al seizure

[dwkanepe at aol.com]

You may want  to try a little heat...just enough to melt candle wax....and wick it into the "frozen" joint. Let it cool, so the wax can expand....then try separating the parts. Not guaranteed...but little risk of damage.
 
Don
WB2BEZ
 
In a message dated 2/15/2018 8:44:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, lists at oakcom.org writes:

 
 Depends on:
1) How badly the pieces are fused.
2) How valuable the pieces are.
3) How much patience you have.

I had some stuck aluminum tower sections that I spent considerable time 
on many years ago. Almost gave up, but then as a final assault kept the 
joints soaked with penetrating oil soaked rags for a couple days, then 
heated the outer tubes with a torch, and with a center mounted scissor 
jack pushing against 2x4's got them freed up without bending the tower 
horizontals too badly.

With antenna elements (or tower sections for that matter) a reasonable 
way to provide pull apart force would be some choker slings, a 
come-along, and a couple trees.

-Steve K8LX

On 2/15/2018 8:21 PM, Ralph Parker wrote:

> OK, so Jet Lube is the way to go.
> Any suggestions on what to use to free an already siezed joint? Or is it 
> hacksaw time?
> 
> VE7XF

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