Elbowrama

[Ron Nossaman]

>Clamp some needlenose vise grips to the wire (tightly), maybe about an inch
>above the thread (not critical), grab the non thread end with your left hand
>and place an elbow onto the other side with the right hand. Then, using the
>weight of the pliers, just start the whole thing spinning and the elbow is
>threaded on in about one second. The whole process is about 4 seconds.
>
>Dave Bunch

If you clamp the Vise-Grip on the wire, right against the top of the old 
elbow before you break it off the wire, you have a depth stop for inserting 
into the new elbow that should make them close enough to the original to 
save some lost motion regulation time when you put the action back in. 
That's assuming it was in the ball park in the first place, and the new 
elbow is the same size as the old.

Ron N