Originally Posted By: stock49
Can't believe he's putting sleeves in with a sledge. Huge piece blew out under stress

I thought so at first also, but consider that they seem to do a lot of them and he states that happens occasionally when using a press also. He seems to know what he's doing, and the results looked exceptional after he got the tops cleaned up.

A couple comments about freezing the sleeve before insertion, keep in mind he's using loctite on the sleeves. Not exactly sure what effect that would have on the loctite, but blue loctite as he was using requires quite a bit of heat to loosen so freezing might play havoc on how it sets with the sleeve. I'm just a backyard wrench who does some machining...but I know temps do matter when using loctite.


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