Not Hot Enough

It's been a while since my last update. This is partly down to my laziness but mainly down to my lack of progress. Since I last posted I have spent only three hours or so on the Beetle. In those three hours I decided to use some heat to free the problematic hub. I pulled on my leather gauntlets grabbed the fire extinguisher and gas blow torch and headed to the garage. I heated the drum to the point where everything was smoking in quite an impressive way and then cranked up the pressure on the puller. Amazingly there was still no movement! I think the problem is that the Beetle drum is a bit too industrial for my blow torch and it's managing to dissipate the heat faster than I can apply it. I'm going to try again with two blow torches. If that doesn't work then it's time to dig out the grinder...