Last time I used an easy-out on my shaft cutters it broke inside the tiny set screw. Took 4 hours and several bits to drill the damn thing out- so much for easy outs. Heat, soak, tighten a little, tap, and repeat from the top. Ron Barr Lady Brookhaven Hatteras LRC 42 Presently lying RI Yacht Club, Narragansett Bay, RI KB1LFX

another one that works every time... Take a nut the next size up from the broken stud and put it on top of the broken stud. Then weld the nut on the inside to weld the stud to the nut and keep on filling the nut until you have filled it to the top. The intense heat will free up the rust by expansion and contraction and you will have a nut to put a wrench on it to unscrew it. You do not have to worry about welding the cast as cast will not be welded by mig wire or flux core wire. I have done this many times for all kinds of application but mostly on exhaust manifold studs and bolts. Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: "ron barr" <rwhb@msn.com> To: <trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:54 PM Subject: T&T: Broken bolt extraction suggestions > Last time I used an easy-out on my shaft cutters it broke inside the > tiny set screw. Took 4 hours and several bits to drill the damn thing > out- so much for easy outs. Heat, soak, tighten a little, tap, and > repeat from the top. > > Ron Barr > Lady Brookhaven Hatteras LRC 42 > Presently lying RI Yacht Club, Narragansett Bay, RI > KB1LFX > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > > To unsubscribe send email to > trawlers-and-trawlering-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.