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Everyday is surreal.

Saw a great meme.

No you can’t have any Greenland, you haven’t finished your Venezuela.

Watching the news at lunchtime just gets more ridiculous every day with Trump praising himself at every opportunity, the look on the faces of his members of staff says a lot , the man is totally crazy, but his take on Starmer is totally correct.

I'm thinking on same lines JasonH - limited use for those bolts that need heat to remove, but not able to get heat in either due to space or nearby components.

I know I probably have a seized bolt on her car, but not even one of those will likely free that up, so know it's not a miracle cure.

For a little over £100, it might be worth a punt - do you have the item number (or link to) yours?

Looks like the chinky super-embassy has now been given the green light.

.......oh, and Trump has stuck his oar in about the Chagos surrender.

Looks like Starmer's constant 'rimming' of the orange man has made no difference.

I agree with him on that one!

Interested to hear how you get on with the induction heater. Nearly bought one last summer, but they were around the £400 make.  Didn't think to check the Ching Chong sellers....

Well if you hold a bolt in a pair of pliers the coil will get it cherry red. That's as far as I have gone so far. They are quite fragile - you can break them if you use it with no coil, nothing in then centre of the coil or use it for too long in one go. However for me it's to release those corroded nuts and bolts that might otherwise shear so it'll get occasional strategic use. The big one I have in mind for it is to free the track rod adjuster on one of my cars, in that case I need to unwind and rewind the coil around the track rod. I'm not sure it'll have the welly to do it but I'll have a go, I know I couldn't free it with anything else. Mine is supposedly 1300W.

I've got to go over to Liverpool for mother's funeral on the 15th

Sorry for your loss

I have had the same dilemma and come to the same conclusion. One nipple was really seized in and the torx bit I hammered in sheared off  .

I now have an induction heater (about £120 from Aliexpress) that I'll try next time it happens.

Interested to hear how you get on with the induction heater. Nearly bought one last summer, but they were around the £400 make.  Didn't think to check the Ching Chong sellers....

Your English is good

My TD never suffered this issue, but I know it was a reasonably common thing for others.  I'm not sure anyone really truly got to bottom of it, with there potentially being multiple causes.

Depending on age, the glow plugs might be enabled even when warm starting, though I don't think the DDE 2.0 and DDE 2.1 ones do.

I would see if you can prove it's the in-tank fuel pump not priming that is the issue, or that it's actually working - the TD engined ones had a high failure rate, but the main injection pump is more than strong enough to compensate most of the time. If you can prove that fixes it, then your idea sounds like a viable solution.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks all. Everyone's experience is different, we've been expecting mum to go for a while and, in the end, it was a merciful release.

Late to this but sorry for your loss Steve.

Thanks Enery 

Thanks all. Everyone's experience is different, we've been expecting mum to go for a while and, in the end, it was a merciful release.

Late to this but sorry for your loss Steve.