[tictactux]

How on earth did they find 6 bolts guaranteed to be equally frozen???

Ask Saxgourmet. They cryo those things.

Here it's household MoS2. And patience.

I found out that it's - while technically unexplainable - easier to keep the wrench/screwdriver steady and turn the object round rather than the other way. I agree this works better with saxophones and clarinets than it works with cars or Sherman tanks.

 

[tictactux]

I've seen stranger things than this in my own line of work, there are lots of people who fail to understand the basic principles of a mechanism and when their theory does not work, they wrongly assume more brute force is needed and break/jam something. :evil:

In that context I especially like the term "percussive maintenance".