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I’m in the process of “restoring” my STTNG and decided to try my hand at cleaning up and painting the transformer.
It looked easy enough, but of course I ran into a roadblock. 1 of the bolts is stuck. I’ve tried to persuade it to come out with a hammer and punch, but it won’t budge. Has anyone ever had this issue?
Is it the varnish that has it frozen? If so, is there a way to loosen it up?
Thanks for and help in advance.
Quoted from luch:are you good at using heat ? or a pair of vise grips
I tried using a pair of vise grips to no avail. I haven’t resorted to heat yet. These things seem to be unobtainium, so I’m trying to be very careful with it.
Quoted from Hawk007:and twist do not push down on fastener as it could push the t-nut through the other side.
should be easy to do.
It’s actually the the long skinny bolt that attaches the bracket to the transformer. I don’t think there’s a T-nut, just a couple of nylon spacers.
Quoted from j_m_:varnish can lock a bolt in place. I used a paint/varnish stripper when I did mine transformer clean-up because it was really caked on good
Do you think it would be safe to put a few drops of paint stripper on the threads like you’d use wd40 for a rusted bolt?
Finally got the bolt out after a couple hours worth of work. Of course it was destroyed during the process. The varnish had almost turned into a cement.
Does anyone know where replacement bolts can be found? No local hardware stores had anything close to the right size.
988A94C3-09BD-4BD6-9045-5079ABDD182D (resized).jpegQuoted from bssbllr:I hope OP is okay. He has a fellow pinsider reaching out to him with the parts he asked and 2 weeks later still nothing. Maybe he sent him a PM. Luch good job on trying to help out.
Yes, all is well thanks to Luch. We exchanged PM’s, a few $ and I received the hardware a short while later.
The varnish(?) had solidified in the bolt holes so bad that I ended up having to use a drill bit (by hand) to clean them out.
I’ll post a final update pic when the cleaning and painting is complete.
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