SWEETER THAN HONEY
We can all relate to trying to remove a nut that is well bonded to a stud. You have heated the nut to glowing red hot and it will move, but it is snapping, and you know you’re going to break the stud. What do you use for penetrating oil? Oils just turn to smoke and flame. Enter the humble bee. Beeswax is a superior high-temp penetrating lube. Touch the heated part with beeswax and it will flow through the threads and presto, the nut comes off.
Peter vanSneidern
Kidder Mtn Restoration
Temple, NH
DEC, 2023
