Clyde: Heat the wire with a propane torch until you see it turn color just a little - certainly not red! Push it in the elbow and hold it straight until the wire cools enough to be solid (10 seconds or so). Try it you'll like it. I cut the old elbows off with a pair of wire cutters, cutting it lengthwise. By now most elbows are so brittle that they fall off easily. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 10/19/99 at 10:04 PM Clyde Hollinger wrote: >OK now, this is a totally new idea I haven't heard of before, heating the wire >and pushing it in. I assume you're serious. I might give it a try if I had a >few more details. It appears obvious the wire has to be hot enough but not too >hot. How do you heat the wire? Any potential future headaches from this? >More details, anyone? > >Clyde Hollinger > >"David M. Porritt" wrote: > >> Bob: >> >> To me that's the only way to do it. Heat that wire and push it in. The >> time saved is far more than what it takes to do a little lost motion >> adjustment. >> >> dave David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275
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