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11-11-2011, 08:48
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 1,249
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Rebuilding a Magma Grill
Anyone have any tips on removing the burner?
So far a ton of blaster, a hammer, and vice grips haven't gotten it to budge yet.
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11-11-2011, 08:59
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
chris--i just buy new to me used ones for 20 dollars and let it be from there--- goood luck....
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11-11-2011, 09:01
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Santa Cruz
Boat: SAnta Cruz 27
Posts: 7,307
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
Its time to get out the angle grinder.
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11-11-2011, 09:11
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Naples, FL
Boat: Leopard Catamaran
Posts: 2,584
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
Plasma cutter??
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11-11-2011, 09:22
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 1,249
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
Unfortunately no cheapo used ones here. The one that's even the price off the parts looks like it's in just as bad shape as mine.
I haven't dropped any F bombs yet. Maybe that's the problem?
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11-11-2011, 09:29
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Toronto
Boat: CS36Merlin, "La Belle Aurore"
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
This'll do it.
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11-11-2011, 09:45
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Nov 2008
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
Not with the top if it rusted off it won't.
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11-11-2011, 09:49
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
patience and penetrating oil.
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11-11-2011, 12:38
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Nov 2008
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
Much easier solution!
Turn grill upside down, let out some of that good boat work language, and bag the **** out of it with a hammer. Now I need a new grease trap too, but Amazon shipping is fast. I may still get it back together faster than if I remained patient. And with the cost of a can of blaster and grinding wheels, I don't think I really spending much more money in the end either.
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11-11-2011, 20:55
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bay of Islands, New Zealand
Boat: Mason 53
Posts: 652
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
G'day, Mates. Just did mine. The shot & beer approach as Bash suggested. Give it a good dose of WD-40, throw back a 6 pack and let loose with the hammer and f-bombs. Cheers.
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13-11-2011, 08:45
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Eternal Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Las Brisas Panama AGAIN!
Boat: Simpson, Catamaran, 46ft. IMAGINE
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
I pulled old nuts off manifold studs by heating the nut. Recently I used boiling water to pull apart a shackle that was frozen...... i2f
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13-11-2011, 09:01
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 2,492
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
My friends on the Jaguar forum swear by PB Blaster. It's held to be much more effective at loosening siezed parts than the other penetrating oils.
Be patient, apply some regularly, and give it a few days to work.
I read a post by a Triumph TR7 owner whose head had siezed onto the block (the TR7's, not the owner's). He connected a hoist to the head, and suspended the whole car by it, front wheels in the air. Sprayed the head bolts twice daily with PB blaster. The 7th morning, the car was sitting on the ground with the head removed.
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13-11-2011, 09:45
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: ontario canada
Boat: grampian 26
Posts: 1,743
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
Quote:
Originally Posted by grunzster
Anyone have any tips on removing the burner?
So far a ton of blaster, a hammer, and vice grips haven't gotten it to budge yet.
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Did you try heating it with a propane torch? The old "heat it and beat it" technique.
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13-11-2011, 12:01
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 1,249
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
Quote:
Originally Posted by perchance
Did you try heating it with a propane torch? The old "heat it and beat it" technique.
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Too late! After 2 days of Blaster, I resorted to the hammer.
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13-11-2011, 13:15
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Apollo Beach, Fl
Boat: Privilege 37
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Re: Rebuilding a Magma Grill
I've had good luck with a product called "Freeze Off". It's made by CRC and is sold in NAPA stores. You spray it on and it freezes the part you want to loosen... rap it with a hammer a couple of whacks and loosen it. In addition to freezing, it has a penetrant the works in to the threads. I've used it after failing with PB Blaster and stuff comes apart. Cursing helps too.
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