On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:50:49 UTC, (N. Thornton)
wrote:

I did think of jamming wood between a drum pulley rib and a rib of the
outer tub (drum's outer casing), but the pressure on it would be
enormous, many times the force put on the bar driving the nut, so i
didnt want to smash the tub doing that.

Well, that's what I did both when removing and replacing the nut. It
didn't seem to be a problem, and still isn't, 3 years on!

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