red loctite

[EsPo]

how do you get red loctite off? ive heard you could do it with a hair dryer.. but how long does it take?

[darklord]

Isn't red loctite the one you don't want to use to seal threads? And the one that you need to boil off....?

[EsPo]

Originally posted by darklord
Isn't red loctite the one you don't want to use to seal threads? And the one that you need to boil off....?
yeah.. but it comes stock on the guages on impulses.. so call sp and tell them :p

[rehme]

take a flame to one i seen one guy use a torch to take of his vert feed on his angel and it had red on it and it came right off but i think you could also use a cig. lighter and just keep it on there longer and have someone use wrench to turn it

[EsPo]

its actually the guage on a maxflow reg... same routine?

[EsPo]

not happening.. had it in a vice, with a wrench ect.. not even budging a millimeter.

[speedyejl]

Take a lighter and keep on the fitting for 3min. It will come off real nice. Trust me it works I've had to do it on my Imp plenty of times ;)

[Kevmaster]

yeh, lighter it for 2-3 mins. then you can remove it.

[EsPo]

this guage = hopeless... lighter was there for 10 plus minutes.. i burned my thumb pretty good.. its not budging

[rehme]

if you have room try to get one of those rubber gripper things you get a walmart they have a big one and a small one and use the small one and it should turn my friend got his vert feed of his excal that had red on it and he said it was kinda stiff but he still got it off but if there is not much clearance i would check to see if there would be enough room to turn it i hope this makes sense:confused:

[speedyejl]

here, hope it helps ;)

[rehme]

yeah just get one of those grippers from walmart it will work

[EsPo]

speedy.. thanks...thats exactly what i was doing for like 10 min strait.. i must be super weak.

[speedyejl]

I meant it in humor, lol

I don't know whats going on honestly it worked for me, countless times.

[personman]

Is it.. blue is like glue, red is dead?
BURNINATE THE GUAGES!!!!!!
Espo got own0rz by red locktite.

[speedyejl]

I think there is only one last resource...

Throw the VA and gauge in to an inferno of burning napalm. I would recomend 3 min in the inferno of course.

[personman]

I think you should use the lighter again, excpt this time use bug spray :D
Or you could stick the tank in a pot of boiling water, but that mit make the reg unscrew :p

[speedyejl]

I say Napalm...
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thomas.Pilsch/AirOps/Images/Napalm.jpg


vs

http://mgnews.msfc.nasa.gov/zeno/Zeno%20images/boiling%20water.JPG

[IcantBelieveit]

dude you can get and adjustable wrench on those gauges my friend. the samll pair will work. see the flat sides on the gauge? You can get an adjustable wrench on that

[EsPo]

its red... i got owned.. so did my father :)
i do have an adjustable wrench on it.. and after you start pulling really hard, it slips...but a few times it didnt slip.. i just gave up.

[IcantBelieveit]

put it in a vise, and try that, or try some vise grips. Why are you taking it of anyways? and are you sure, some lamer did not cross thread it in there?

[EsPo]

no.. its on my friends maxflo reg(he had an imp.. got a maxflo tank, gaveme his reg).. he said i could have the guage for the back of my imp.. seeing as i need to know the input of the lpr.

this entire time its been in a vice...

can i send it to one of you guys to do it for me?!

[speedyejl]

I'll do it for free, no fee for return shipping. Email me if your intrested.

eric@elairsmiths.com

[FutureMagOwner]

i assume this is the brass punk i had to deal with my dad ended up getting pissed and smashed it with a a hammer and drilled the center out and cleaned off the rest of the crap and retapped it for good luck

[speedyejl]

Brass? nahh, its a SS micro-gauge here.

[IcantBelieveit]

i will also do it for free, just let me know, doesnt matter

[PurePower]

Espo. Heat it up then get the proper fitting wrench not adjustable. Put the wrench on try to tighten it then try to loosen it to take it off. If that does not work Get a piece of pipe and put it over the wrench so you now have a huge lever and try to get it off. One of these will work. Good luck.

[rehme]

yeah are you turning it the correct way lefty loosey righty tighty

[magmonkey]

NAIL POLISH REMOVER - it takes off red loctite

[IcantBelieveit]

Originally posted by magmonkey
NAIL POLISH REMOVER - it takes off red loctite

along with any type of nice finish

[magmonkey]

never had a prblem with it taking off annodizing

[speedyejl]

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