every once in awhile you'll round off a nut or strip threads so you can,t unscrew a nut from a thread like on a wheel lug, and occasionally you can use this tool to pop off the nut, its not that the tool doesn,t work, because if you can get it on in most cases it works fine, its just getting the clearance necessary to use it that's usually a problem in my experience
A nut splitter is a steel collar which slips around the nut. One side of the collar has a hard steel wedge which is driven into the nut to split it by turning a bolt on the side of the collar. These are only needed to remove really badly rusted nuts, usually on the under carriage of cars. Their use on motorcycles is rare, but if you have a nut that's hopeless and can't be removed any other way you should be aware that this tool exists.
Another option is a small cutting wheel in a dremel-tool. or a rotary die cutter air tool, It will spray hot sparks and bits of grit all over, and will generate a lot of heat, but it can cut through the ugliest frozen nut... if you can get to it. If it's buried deep inside aluminum cases, there's one last possibility: EDM.
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/ ... 4573_34573
http://www.carparts.com/Nut-Splitters/600023536.car
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=66419
HERES A DIFFERENT OPTION
http://www.theinductor.com/
A nut splitter is a steel collar which slips around the nut. One side of the collar has a hard steel wedge which is driven into the nut to split it by turning a bolt on the side of the collar. These are only needed to remove really badly rusted nuts, usually on the under carriage of cars. Their use on motorcycles is rare, but if you have a nut that's hopeless and can't be removed any other way you should be aware that this tool exists.
Another option is a small cutting wheel in a dremel-tool. or a rotary die cutter air tool, It will spray hot sparks and bits of grit all over, and will generate a lot of heat, but it can cut through the ugliest frozen nut... if you can get to it. If it's buried deep inside aluminum cases, there's one last possibility: EDM.
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/ ... 4573_34573
http://www.carparts.com/Nut-Splitters/600023536.car
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=66419
HERES A DIFFERENT OPTION
http://www.theinductor.com/
