Well color me surprised, I thought the holes were for design but didn’t look usable. Ok, just verified, my socket is too large to fit the hole…
.I own a corded impact wrench but didn’t when I first replaced my heater element. It was severely difficult to remove the element from the boiler, clamped in vice and emitting noxious smoke at service station. This was a b2 with fabled epoxy sealant. Now that element has been out it can come out easily with wrench. On Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at 9:30:05 AM UTC-8 KJM wrote: > On 14/12/21 5:38 pm, Eric Christoffersen wrote: > > Um... I would be very surprised if you could remove the element > > without first removing the boiler from the machine. Its quite a bit of > > force, I had boiler wrapped in a towel and clamped in a vise at the > > gas station. No way to stabilize the boiler while its in the machine. > > > > Did I misread? You guys are able to remove the heating element from > > boiler through that little hole? > > Absolutely. Zero problems at all... The virtue is the impact tool. > Impact stuff applies a momentary torque which applies an effectively > nett almost zero torque to the boiler. Just like a nail gun - a nail > gun will fire a little brad into piffling thin wood that you can't use a > conventional hammer to nail in. > > I do admit I used a strap wrench to resist the torque on the first > boiler I did, but for the expobar I just held it in one hand and used > the impact tool to unscrew. It works a charm! > > > > > I didn't use impact to install element. Just tightened it good with > > the plumbers tape. > I would have too, except I was lazy :) I do reflect on my own personal > weakness in not getting the 'right' tool from the shed in this instance, > but the impact tool just spun it in and then I gave it a tiny bit of > impact and it was done. I'd probably do the same again - only because > it is quick and simple. The risk of manually torquing and bending the > boiler stuff VS over impact-er-ation is about the same I'd reckon... I > do personally prefer to torque things manually and 'feel' it though! > > > > Also, I don't think there is any point buying an impact wrench for > > this. Buy some beers for the guys at the local service station. > > As an engineer type person: tools are cool :) Of course *I'd* buy one > if I didn't already have it :) Beers work too though! But the 18v > battery tool is somewhat less brutal than an air rattle gun. Assembly > with an air impact would be utterly terrifying, but it'd probably be > fine for removal - except the time the force is applied with an air > rattle gun is much longer than the battery thing. So there would be > more nett torque on the boiler (hence the vice). > > So summary: it does work just fine. Done it more than once! > > Cheers > > /Kevin > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/brewtus/81ca77f2-3c1c-424f-ad52-46622dd85e5bn%40googlegroups.com.
