I'm about to break something

[jestor00]

thanks for the good advice. The screw driver worked as if the filter wasn't stuck on at all. LoL if I had known it would come off that easy I would used it to begin with. I'm wondering if hammering the screwdriver into the filter loosened it up or something.  Heh lefty loosey you guys don't know how many times I double checked to make sure I was going the right way when it wasn't budging.

Now I just need some aloe for my sunburned back : ( i only had my shirt off for an hour. I'm to pasty!!

Anybody around El Paso that would like to get together and show me the good roads down here?

[silentbob]

Righty tighty, lefty loosey. 

It's a circle.  There is no left or right.

Counterclockwise to loosen.

[Goat_Herder]

It's a circle.  There is no left or right.

Counterclockwise to loosen.

Let's see how many other things we use to remember how to tighen or loosen a bolt. 

Imagine holder a soda can in front of you with right hand and thumb sticking up.  The thumb represent the direction of the bolt and the direction of your fingers represent the direction it needs to rotate to tighten the bolt. 

Are you more onfused now than before?  Good!

[He Man]

right hand rule of bolts?

It's a circle.  There is no left or right.

Counterclockwise to loosen.

yes there is. a circle is just an infinite amount of left  or  right turns but never both.

[silentbob]

right hand rule of bolts?

yes there is. a circle is just an infinite amount of left  or  right turns but never both.

As I turn my wrench to loosen a bolt it goes up, then left, then down, then right, then up again, and it all starts over again.  Unless the bolt is on a horizontal plane in reference to me then it goes forward, left, backwards, right, ...