scouring powder
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From: Escondido, CA
scouring powder
Do you guys use scouring powder to help remove stripped, rusted, and over torqued screws? It's a god sent around here with some of the knuckle heads who over tighten or strip out panel screws on A/C. Works on bolt heads too.
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From: Waterloo, Iowa
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Neat trick, learned that in the Army working on aircraft from an old sheet metal guy.
Works real good to *prevent* stripped phillips head screws that are torqued way beyond spec.
Okay. Say you have a number 2 phillips screw that is just reefed in there tighter than a mini skirt on prom night.
When the wife isn't looking, ****** the Comet from under the sink, take to garage. Deposit a good dollop of spit (it's handy) on the tip of your bit or screwdriver and dunk same into Comet so it has a good coating over the bit. For whatever reason, the comet fills the gap(s) between the screw and bit and makes a very tight fit without slipping, usually giving enough gription to remove the screw before stripping. Works great.
Works real good to *prevent* stripped phillips head screws that are torqued way beyond spec.
Okay. Say you have a number 2 phillips screw that is just reefed in there tighter than a mini skirt on prom night.
When the wife isn't looking, ****** the Comet from under the sink, take to garage. Deposit a good dollop of spit (it's handy) on the tip of your bit or screwdriver and dunk same into Comet so it has a good coating over the bit. For whatever reason, the comet fills the gap(s) between the screw and bit and makes a very tight fit without slipping, usually giving enough gription to remove the screw before stripping. Works great.
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Thanks for the clarification. Although necessity is the mother of invention, don't you often wonder what would prompt someone to even think about using scouring powder this way?
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