Hello all,
I'm replacing the switching relay for my BT-7. For those not familiar, it's a smallish metal box on the left side of the engine compartment partially concealed by an air hose. It has 8 wire terminals, 4 on each side, attached via small screw-on terminals.
Problem/Question: I have tried to unscrew each of the 8 terminals and since they are bare metal terminals, you guessed it, they have rust on each one. Not corrosive huge amounts, just a thin veneer of rust, enough to make removal impossible, at least so far. I've tried different size screwdrivers, Liquid Wrench, but no luck getting them to budge. Tapping the center lightly with a center punch isn't feasible (these are small machine screws unsupported by anything) nor is heating via a blow torch (it would melt the wire insulation). I can think of a brute force solution, cutting the old terminal ends off and bludgeoning the screw out, but that'd be really tedious to do 8 times. Thought I'd ask for ideas. Any out there?
Thanks,
-Tom
I'm replacing the switching relay for my BT-7. For those not familiar, it's a smallish metal box on the left side of the engine compartment partially concealed by an air hose. It has 8 wire terminals, 4 on each side, attached via small screw-on terminals.
Problem/Question: I have tried to unscrew each of the 8 terminals and since they are bare metal terminals, you guessed it, they have rust on each one. Not corrosive huge amounts, just a thin veneer of rust, enough to make removal impossible, at least so far. I've tried different size screwdrivers, Liquid Wrench, but no luck getting them to budge. Tapping the center lightly with a center punch isn't feasible (these are small machine screws unsupported by anything) nor is heating via a blow torch (it would melt the wire insulation). I can think of a brute force solution, cutting the old terminal ends off and bludgeoning the screw out, but that'd be really tedious to do 8 times. Thought I'd ask for ideas. Any out there?
Thanks,
-Tom