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   Frozen | Jun 17, 2009 11:52pm | #1

   Heating the assembly might loosen it. The coefficient of thermal expansion for aluminum is about twice that of steel. Grip the handle and the chisel with two vice grips, go at the joint with a candle or blow torch, and have at it.

   If that didn't work, I think I would attack the handle with a Dremel tool.

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   Wingdoctor | Jun 18, 2009 03:36am | #2

   You might also be able to hold the blade with your hand and rap the front of the handle with a brass hammer. The impact might loosen it and repeated blows drive it off. If that does not work I would probably hold the blade in a wood vise and try sawing with a hacksaw down the side to split the aluminum and relieve some of the tension.  Watch that you don't cut into the tang. It should then be easy to knock off.

   Bruce

   "A man's got to know his limitations." Dirty Harry Calahan
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   MikeHennessy | Jun 18, 2009 02:00pm | #3

   I'd just cut the aluminum off with a sawsall. I wouldn't worry about damaging the tang - it's a lot harder than the sawblade.

   Mike Hennessy
   Pittsburgh, PA
   Everything fits, until you put glue on it.

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   [email protected] | Jun 18, 2009 07:44pm | #4

   Thanks to both for your suggestions ... I'll give it a shot

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   roc | Jun 20, 2009 05:19am | #5

   This is a little tung in cheek but if you have a friend who has one of these or if you been wanting one I say go for it !

   : )

   http://www.cpojettools.com/products/321360a.html#

   I used the pic just now on another question and came here to see what the latest solution is and must say it would be easy to chuck up the handle in the chuck and turn the alu down to the tang then break the residue off. Assuming the hole through the handle was relatively on center.

   >Hard tang

   I don't know but if this were a file the tang is soft and malleable ( sawable ) even thought the file area is hard. I am pretty sure the tang of a chisel is annealed after hardening as well.

   Aluminum is sooooo easy to hacksaw by hand the sawsall is over kill and might even be dangerous if you don't really clamp it down.

   A sawsall is designed to be used rather differently. If the tang is truly hardened as was thunk then the violent back and forth yanking of the sawsall could easily snap it off IF ( read WHEN ) the blade binds in the kerf.

   Nah dude nah . . . hand hacksaw it using a 14 tooth blade in a high tension hacksaw.

   Or the metal lathe

   ): )

   roc

   Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )

   Edited 6/19/2009 10:20 pm by roc

   Edited 6/19/2009 10:22 pm by roc

   
   

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   Edited 6/19/2009 10:37 pm by roc

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   Shoemaker1 | Jun 20, 2009 05:17pm | #6

   Try putting it in the freezer for a couple hour and it may fall out with a wack.

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   roc | Jun 21, 2009 09:51pm | #7

   Mister,

   Please let us know how you get the handle off. We await your reply with abated breath.

   Just came to mind you could hold it over your stove burner holding the handle with channellocks (arc joint pliers) or vise grips. Dont' let the alu handle drop onto the burner. Alu will not turn red just before it MELTS it will just fall in a mush onto the burner around 1100° F so don't get it that hot. Just warm ( two or three hunert deg ).

   If you want to be a "cool guy" you can stop by a welding store and get a "temp crayon" for three or four hundred deg F, make marks on your handle, hold in the heat DON'T TOUCH TO BURNER, when the crayon marks flow don't go any higher even if the handle doesn't come loose.

   Oh it will come loose.

   Have fun ! Let us know.

   roc

   Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )

   
   

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   Edited 6/21/2009 2:55 pm by roc

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   roc | Jul 19, 2009 06:58am | #8

   ?

   roc

   Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )

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   joinerswork | Jul 20, 2009 08:11pm | #9

   Hey roc,

   Would have thought you'd recommend whatever he does to remove the handle, he ought to first spend  4 hrs sharpening the chisel!

   Haha

   Ray

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   roc | Jul 21, 2009 04:48am | #10

   >4 hrs sharpening the chiselOnly if there is a couple of wide eyed newbies looking on. Gotta play it up to keep the differential going. Unless we are sharpening an edge one of them has been working on all morning without success then giterdone quick just to keep 'em guessin'.: )supose the OP got that handle off ?rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )

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   joinerswork | Jul 21, 2009 03:31pm | #11

   roc,

   Maybe he sawzall-ed off both the handle and the tang?

   Ray