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Re: (ET) trimming bolts on T-105s
Thanks for the tips everyone. I think I'll first try a big pair of bolt cutters from work, and if that won't do it (may not be able to open enough, or may be too difficult to squeeze it shut), I'll give the old hacksaw a try. I'll leave the grinder on the shelf for this one - don't want to have a battery blowing up in my face. That sounds dangerous! 

THanks,
Mike

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Michael S. Briggs
UNH Physics Department
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On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Travis Creswell wrote:


Within in the last few years didn't someone post that they used a grinder 
to
trim the bolts and that one of the cut bolts fell into the battery box and
melted a hole in a battery case?  Oops!

Be careful with whatever method.  The hacksaw could easily get a across two
battery terminals.

Travis Creswell
Joplin, MO

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[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of Michael
Neverdosky
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 10:04 PM
To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: (ET) trimming bolts on T-105s

For things like this I use a 4.5" angle grinder with a thin cutoff
wheel. It slices right through steel smoothly and easily.

Then again I do enough metal work to have a grinder dedicated to use
with cutoff wheels and another with a grinding wheel.

For cutoff use even the light 4.5" grinders are fine and use a thin
cutoff wheel. My B&D uses the flat "Norton" wheels that are about
$1.70 at Home Depot.

Be sure to cut with the edge of the wheel and be careful to NOT bend it.
Wear safety glasses!

michael

On 7/1/06, Dave & Deb <daveb drizzle com> wrote:

I took a hacksaw to the threaded posts on my Interstate battery

workaholics.

didn't seem to damage anything... the posts were veryy sturdy




Almost done putting the E-15 back together after all the painting and
everything, and I discovered that the bolts on the T-105s are a bit too
tall for the battery boxes (I've seen many posts saying this was a
possibility, so I'm not surprised). What do people recommend using to

trim

or grind down the bolts some? I'm not sure how sturdily attached those
bolts are, so I don't know how much force they'll take.

Thanks,
Mike


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