[TheForge] Re: Tools you have got to have - was Repair job

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Mike:
If you can slide 2 of the right sized nuts down the cable and run them 
part way down the threads, then lock them against each other, you can 
then twist the whole thing out..otherwise, pad the pliers with lead or 
leather...but you already know that stuff.
Pretty good CBA conf., there amongst the antique tractors and steam 
engines. The BS shop is all line shaft power from a big old one lunger.
The coal smoke kept the skeeters away....pf

Mike Spencer wrote:
>>> One is hemostats.  
> 
>> These guys would know them as a roach clip. 
> 
> I have a couple of surgical bone curettes in my toolbox.  Somebody
> once looked at them and exclaimed, "Oh, cool! Long-handled stainless
> coke spoons!" (They're useful for spooning crud out of deep bolt
> holes, scraping in narrow places and such.  Great for cleaning my
> pipe. :-)
> 
> BTW, I have solved the tachometer cable problem about which I asked
> advice.  It seems that you *must* grab a threaded object with pliers
> *on the threaded portion* in order to unscrew it.  I still don't
> understand why it's like that. But I've located a shop manual so I may
> learn eventually.
> 
> 
> - Mike
>