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Have you bothered to concider that your professor may be mistaken? Just cause someone lands a job at the local community college does not mean that everything they believe is automatically correct.

Its unfortunate to think that this bogus information is being passed down to his students.

As both an engineer and a mechanic I have seen my fare share of bogus 'knowledge' being passed around since most people do not have the insight or training to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

As I already stated your method will only push surfaces together, not pull them apart. Its kind of hard to break a bond using compression instead of tension. While your theory about burning out locktite is correct and probably explains why you think your method works it will not do jack squat for corroded and bonded fasteners.

Thats the facts and you will probably refuse to believe me since I have seen this argument made in other threads to you before yet you still appear to believe your own experience instead of dozens of other people who know better.