Home Depot or Lowe's will have a strap wrench. If you can find an impact wrench that fits your socket it will be much easier to remove. The aforementioned stores also, usually, have those in stock. Herman
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:56 PM, winnipegger65 <[email protected]> wrote: > My Brewtus is leaking, just a bit, from the heating element in the brew > boiler. Once it gets warmed up, I guess some expansion happens and no more > water leaks out. Total leakage is maybe a teaspoon or less. The heating > element is (I think) a 38 mm socket and I have one that fits. What I'm > struggling with is how to apply the necessary torque to tighten it without > wrenching the brew boiler itself. I was told to use a belt (like on your > pants) to try and hold the boiler while tightening the heating element. > However, that's easier said than done. > > Do any of you fine people out there have any advice? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Brewtus" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
