[AT] Amazing earth shattering event...

[Cecil Bearden]

I used to have absolutely no luck with easy outs.  For many years all I 
could find were the ones that looked like a left hand twist tapered drill. 
Then I got a set of the ones that are just square with a taper.  I have made 
some of these when I could not find my set...  Made them from tool steel and 
hardened it....  I found that the trick to an easy out is to drill the exact 
center of the bolt.  ( well nearly! )   Then drill out the bolt to within 
.010 of the root diameter of the threads.  This will relieve the stress on 
the threads enough they will back out.  I also think that drilling that much 
of the bolt out causes enough heat to shrink the threaded portion of the 
bolt...  This has workde for me for the last 10 years or so...  YMMV

Cecil in OKla


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H. L. Staples" <hlstaples at mcloudteleco.com>
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Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:08 PM
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How about the Video.

H. L.

-------Original Message-------

From: Indiana Robinson
Date: 12/29/05 20:50:54
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: [AT] Amazing earth shattering event...

  Son Scott was working on the front hubs of his plow truck
on which the PO also used a salt spreader. One of the lock-
out socket head bolts was broken off and (drum-roll here,
this is the amazing part) he took it out with an Easy-out.
I seem to recall that success only occurs about one time
out of thousands...   ;-)



--
"farmer"

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net

  I have created a local Shopsmith users list for my area.
It is described as follows:
This is to be a list for Shopsmith owners and want to be
owners in the general area of Indiana. If you are across
the line in OH or IL that is fine too. I don't want to draw
a hard line but I hope for all members to be within a
reasonable driving distance of each other. This list is for
sharing woodworking tips and stories and Shopsmith tips and
stories but also is to be used for the buying, selling and
swapping of Shopsmith tools, accessories and parts between
members of this list.

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