How do you disassemble ECM E61 mushroom valve - Page 2
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Brilliant! I'll try this one day with my ECM kit, which so far I've not been able to take apart. Thanks.bluesman wrote:My approach to this is to stand the mushroom on a counter upside down and put a few drops of penetrating agent on the thread joint several times in 24 hours. Then stand it upside down in enough very hot water to submerge only the big nut. I set 2 dishes next to each other, replenish the hot water from a kettle in one, and move the assembly into it while putting fresh hot water in the other. After a few minutes, the cap should unscrew from the bell-shaped part. To separate the pieces, I put the cap nut in an upturned socket on a breaker bar clamped in a vise. I don't care if the penetrant is "food safe", since the entire assembly is SS and can be thoroughly cleaned.
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I haven't been able to either, what were they thinking tightening it up SO MUCH
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I'm jumping in on this a little late, but everyone suggesting "leverage" is correct.
I have a piece of wood that holds the cap in a vice on 3 faces... And then put a pipe over your wrench handle, walk to the far end of the pipe and walk with it in a circle around the table where the vice is holding the cap.
It's not my first piece of wood. Sometimes the cap wins. Thank god the stainless steel mushrooms are a little tougher than the ceramic ones. I'll take durable and difficult over delicate and usually broken.
I have a piece of wood that holds the cap in a vice on 3 faces... And then put a pipe over your wrench handle, walk to the far end of the pipe and walk with it in a circle around the table where the vice is holding the cap.
It's not my first piece of wood. Sometimes the cap wins. Thank god the stainless steel mushrooms are a little tougher than the ceramic ones. I'll take durable and difficult over delicate and usually broken.