[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] Rusted parts help?

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Try Kano-Kroil products. I work on slave clocks if you need help. I have 25 or so running here on an old pendulum master clock. Who was the manufacturer of your clocks?? 73 Ross

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One of the WWII restoration projects at the museum is a bunch of large impulse driven (slave) clocks we wish to return to operation (I've gotten a couple running so far) . The problem we have that I hope you all can help solve is that many of the concentric shafts for the minute hand and hour hand are seized (i.e., solid minute hand shaft inside tubular hour shaft). The shafts are concentric for about two inches length, with about 3/8 inch overall outside dia. The two shafts were a very close fit originally and are now pretty solidly stuck.

I've tried Liquid Wrench but it doesn't seem to be able to penetrate. I've tried placing the assembly in my zero-deg freezer for a couple days & then hitting the outer hour shaft with a propane flame for several seconds, then tapping on the inner shaft. So far, nothing gives. I can't hammer very hard, the rest of the assembly won't take the abuse.

Is there something that penetrates better than Liquid Wrench? If no, then I think my next attack will require packing one end of the inner shaft in dry ice with the flame applied to the outer shaft, in the hope that the reason it failed before was the inner took heat from the outer too quickly. 

Any other ideas??

Thanks!

Wayne
WB4OGM
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