[Public-List] FW: stubborn bolt

[Rod Symmes]

Sorry  -  I meant to send this to the whole list

Cheers,   Rod

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From: weatherhelm at hotmail.com
To: gewhite at crosslink.net
Subject: RE: [Public-List] stubborn bolt
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 11:20:45 -0400








Snap-On Tools sells a set of extractors [the best ] and the best part is .....  the set of corresponding drills that comes with it are also left-handed.  The beauty of this is that you use your drill in reverse to make the hole for the extractor and sometimes you get really lucky and the drilling vibration and heat loosens the broken bolt and it backs out of the hole gripped to the end of your drill bit.
But only if you are a truly virtuous and deserving person  (-:

Cheers,   Rod

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> 
>        The bolt, if it is really stubborn, will break off. Then you need 
> a really sharp drill bit, a center punch, and a mis-named tool called an 
> "E-Z-Out," which has a left hand thread to it. You drill the appropriate 
> diameter hole in the broken bolt, tap the E-Z-Out into it and twist with 
> a wrench. Supposedly the E-Z-out will screw into the bolt and because of 
> its left hand thread, will screw the bolt out.
> alberg30.org