MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Picked up a Carcoon Veloce - it's one of those bubble things to store your car in (or a "car Condom" as one of my friends suggested). This type has a frame like a tent that goes on the inside so you can drive in/out without having to put it up/down everytime.
It had been sat in the seller's garage a while and two of the poles had corroded together. It'll still work as is, but while it's down I'd like to get it apart and respray it etc.
I've tried spraying various penetrating fluids and used a freeze release spray too. There's a handy lug a few inches down from the joint but even with that in the vice and molegrips on the tube it's not shifting. Next step is the blowtorch unless anyone's got any bright ideas?
Ziptie in the pic is to hold in the springy button.
try boiling water
Can you drill a hole and put a bar through the one without the lug? Then you hold either the lug or the bar, your mate holds the other and you turn in opposite directions?
Might work with really solid poles, less so with thin aluminium tubes....
Same principle as your vice and molegrips but with much better grip
Thanks chaps.
I'll try those tomorrow and report back.
Unable to open pic, but borrowing a technique I have seen used on siezed nuts, I would suggest a rapid 'tapping' as opposed to susstained brute force.
Do you have an impact driver? Would the pole fit the chuck? Or possibley an sds drill with a rotary stop feature?
Just don't lose sight of the goal.
Ultimately, if it i seized it is unlikely to prevent you from painting it, if it becomes bent / broken (but separate) it will be a hollow victory. (learnt from experience).
You could try a pair of strap wrenches and turn them in opposite directions. A bit of penetrating oil wouldn’t hurt too.
Can't see the pic. Are the tubes steel or aluminium? About what diameter, and how robust in terms of wall thickness? So, like scaffolding or tent poles? It matters if you want to avoid breaking them.
Tapping them together along the axis might help break the corrosion. Heat, repeated tapping, and penetrating oil if steel, but mostly patience.
I’d also try boiling water. On the outer pole. But then I’d just paint it if that failed.
If I had to separate 2 Poles I would place 2 bottles of vodka about 2m away from each of them in opposite directions
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This is the type of content I opened the thread for
Ok thanks for all the tips.
I didn't try drilling in the end because the steel seemed a bit thin so I thought it might tear. Went for the boiling water and tapping approach followed by the blowtorch. Did the trick! It came apart fairly easily.
I wanted it apart so that it could be packed away easily for future transport if needed.
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Just wondering... Why does your username show as an email address in the forum list?
Just wondering… Why does your username show as an email address in the forum list?
Dunno.
I did reset my password the other day as my mobile wouldn't log in. I'll look into it.
EDIT - Think it's sorted.
Good work getting them apart undamaged though 👍👍