is not to stab them with a screwdriver....got any other methods?

go get a coat hanger or other stiff wire. cut it off and bend a hook that is small, like 1/4 inch. then stick it in the exhaust port and hook it on the back side of the cooper ring and pull.

you may have to rebend and pull from multible spots

when you go to put new ones in hang them on the coat hanger and heat them with a propane torch till they real hot and then drop them in to water. this will soften them up they they seal easier

I bent an old screwdriver...works great

QUOTE (scott thacher @ Jun 18 2005, 10:58 AM)

go get a coat hanger or other stiff wire. cut it off and bend a hook that is small, like 1/4 inch. then stick it in the exhaust port and hook it on the back side of the cooper ring and pull. you may have to rebend and pull from multible spots when you go to put new ones in hang them on the coat hanger and heat them with a propane torch till they real hot and then drop them in to water. this will soften them up they they seal easier

quench the copper?.......from what i recall that repairs stress cracks on a molecular level....quenching it makes the grain boundaries smaller and therefore makes the metal more brittle....


just working out the logic in my mind.

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Jun 18 2005, 11:08 AM)

quench the copper?.......from what i recall that repairs stress cracks on a molecular level....quenching it makes the grain boundaries smaller and therefore makes the metal more brittle.... just working out the logic in my mind.

in steel yes quenching it makes it harder and a slow cool softens

copper or other non ferious metals slow cooling hardens and quenching softens. if you want go get a 50 cent copper fitting and try it, you can get a copper plumbing fitting almost soft enough to squeeze by hand

i remember it now, yeah i was able to wrap a huge copper length of tube in tiny concentric circles.......after quenching that is

WTF are you doing that requires being copper tubing in small circles???



Tom

its called a lab....

at least i was doing SOMETHING with it...other people just heated it up and branded thier lab partner.

QUOTE (bd1308 @ Jun 18 2005, 11:42 AM)

its called a lab.... at least i was doing SOMETHING with it...other people just heated it up and branded thier lab partner.

A LAB? and you were doing soMETHing. 2+2=

i bet shine.

k

he is in KY

rolling meth lab would explain ALOT

actually meth labs are real big in Indiana....nobody can get asprin of any kind w/o a perscription and a quota of how much can be bought.


the lab I was in was explaining the difference between cquenching and not quenching in various materials....