[HELP] Clutch issue - Woodhouse and Mitchell Junior 70 lathe

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Mayhem, besides the tools, many times in "impossible" situations I've found that kerosene (paraffin-UK) if given time will free anything I've ever had to deal with. Including a pulley frozen (apparently loctited) onto the crankshaft of an UL engine that took a week to release with a gear puller in place and tensioned. It's just time and pressure, and the kerosene working its way in to the point of release. Likewise soaking parts frozen together in a container frees assemblies eventually. Likewise a frozen flywheel on a Martiner outboard motor. Likewise freeing a stuck piston in a rusted block with the kerosene sitting on top in the cylinder.

But it takes time, and patience. So satisfying when it does pop free, and does so undamaged.