# Tips for breaking fasteners loose

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [January 14, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tips-for-breaking-fasteners-loose/249737 "2010-01-14T21:41:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tips-for-breaking-fasteners-loose/249737/10 "2010-01-15T03:40:35Z")

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> [@951 winter progress](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/951-winter-progress/19571/351):
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> opposite of no.1, I remember SPROCKIT telling me he’s used nitrous before, froze the shit out of something than hit it with a hammer :rofl

either way works. We’ve actually had to do both here at work before. You heat up the outer part to expand it and freeze the inner part to shring it. The key is not heating/cooling the “other” part.

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