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K.O.Lee S618

Is the stuck nut the spindle nut or the wheel mount nut?
Someone may have placed the wrong hand wheel mount on the machine, *care to examine the thread with a loop and a flashlight to see what thread it is. Wheel mount nut may be rusted tight so a week soaking with WD before trying to remove it. Few drops every day,

Have a proper wrench. Have a friend hold the mounted wheel with two gloved hands, Turn the spindle nut left.

Most every grinder the spindle nut and the wheel mount nut turn opposite to the direction of the rotation.

Sometimes you find a spindle nut that is so overtightened that it seems impossible to take off.

So you use a long breaker bar with a short socket and do the friend holding the wheel method.

(X) Many spindles have a nut at the back of the spindle but holding that can damage some spindles.

Some wheel mounts have spanner wrench holes so you can use two wrenches.

Chilling the spindle nut with nitrogen works sometimes but few have nitrogen.

last resort that works, you use the friend two hands holding wheel with the breaker bar held tight pushing in the left direction to give pressure in the correct direction, and give it a hammer whack in the direction of rotation at the far end. Start with a slow slug whack with a larger ball pean hammer.
 
last resort that works, you use the friend two hands holding wheel with the breaker bar held tight pushing in the left direction to give pressure in the correct direction, and give it a hammer whack in the direction of rotation at the far end. Start with a slow slug whack with a larger ball pean hammer.

My "FIRST resort" here, quite often.

- Sub a leather or rubber strap - even ignorant sacrificial ROPE - for the "friend" and his GLOVED hands. Poor-lady store five dollah recycled "rubber" doormat makes good padding and grip even for ratchet straps to a wooden torque-bar.

- make the rap a SHARPISH one from a low/moderate mass, but relatively hard, hammer, not a slow "push" from a lead or plastic "deadblow".

I use an old favorite English "Thor" in wood, Iron, rawhide, and solid Copper, ELSE a cheap and cheerful CHICOM brass one from - of all places - Harbor Freight!

Get's 'er done first-go, damned near every go, minimal delay or wasted time f**king around.
 








 
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