Re: NUTS!

[Toby Basiliko <toby@wolfenet.com>]

Phil,
	You might try a magnet on a stick (you know, the flexible,
made-of-spring type things.)  Maybe that, with shaking, will get it as
your case is nonmagnetic and the nut is.  Good luck!

Toby B 

Philip Dillard wrote:
> 
> Re my previous posting about the errant nut that fell into my almost
> fully assembled engine, I am trying to think of some easy way to
> extract the nut when (and IF) I go home tonight.
> 
> Here are my ideas in ascending order of complexity:
> 
>   1.  Invert the engine and hope the nut falls back out the same way
>        it went in.  (As an added touch, shake it the way a bartender
>        does a coctail?)
> 
>   2.  Purchase some kind ( what?) of thin, flexible tool with a
>        magnet on the end to reach down into the case.
> 
>   3,  Remove the head, pistons and cylinders from one side of the
>        engine and try to reach the nut via the side openings.
> 
>   4.  Split the case.
> 
>   5.  Slit my throat!
> 
> Does anyone out there have a handy-dandy suggestion for EASILY
> getting that nut out of my case?
> 
>  PLEASE help bring my blood pressure down below 300 over 180!
> 
> I appreciate  your thinking of me when you hear the word " nut ".
> 
> Phil (maybe I'll just drive my Chrysler forever) Dillard
> dillard@suu.edu
> 
> "You can't teach a mouse new clicks."