You can even make your hex wrench back into a pencil when you're done! So much versatility! Reply 13 years ago on Introduction. Reply 12 years ago on Introduction. Not flown recently? It's a plastic see-through bottle of water!! Take cover!!!! No, you can't use your own. You have to buy ours to put yours in. Reply 11 years ago on Introduction. As a user of power tools, I don't think I'd trust the tork one can get with soft wood versus steel.
However, a clever use of thought on your part. This is probably fine for "finger tight" hex screws. Reply 14 years ago on Introduction.
Which is why this is an emergency hex wrench. It's also better than "finger tight" otherwise, why make the tool? It's certainly better than "finger tight" on a socket cap screw like this, where you can't tighten it with your fingers! I actually made an instructable that is more important than I thought when I made it, the "seatpost toolkit". If there's clearance use a Dremel tool with a thin cutoff blade to cut a slot in the screw head, and take it out with a big screwdriver.
You can put a rag or something around it to keep the small amount of grinding dust off of delicate parts. I just had to do this and it worked. Is there any welding equipment on site? I've built up weld material with TIG on the ball until I had a long enough handle to grab with pliers and pull it out. Thanks for the fast suggestions. There's oil in there as well. My regard for the convenience of ball end hex keys has dropped a lot- they tend to jam in the screw head when torqued hard, even when they don't break off!
I had a bad feeling on this one. Good suggestions on knocking it loose, maybe try a long punch. Once it's loose and you can extract it with a magnet, avoid using ball drivers unless absolutely necessary, for the reason you just discovered. Regular ol' hex drivers a.
You got the test without the lesson. Ball ends and not for high torque applications. I found out that way too, on a. How about this: 1. Good luck. What's the torque on that bolt? Neat, Isn't it??
Take a wire brush and clean the bolt of loose rust and dirt. Apply oil to the bolt and threads, covering it completely, then give it some time to work; I prefer to spray it every hour for 2 hours.
It may work quicker or longer then that stated time, that is my preference. Again, rock it in and out to break that binding force. Our next step is to use leverage to remove that stubborn bolt. Beware, rusted bolts and cheaper tools could possibly break and really screw you over.
The best way to get some leverage is by using what is called a Breaker Bar, a long handled socket wrench without a ratchet mechanism. The longer lever will allow you to exert more force by being able to lean into it AND have excellent leverage, this will multiply your strength on the bolt.
A lot of times, this will work for you. Another way to get leverage is to use your wrench or socket wrench and add a pipe over the handle as an extension.
However, the wrong tool for the job could hurt you. I suggest you do it right and buy a breaker bar. Beware, at this point if your bolt is beginning to feel "soft" it may be twisting and about to break. At this point, the bolt may still not budge. I bet your getting frustrated, Right?
Our next step is to use a torch to heat the bolt up. The idea is to have one side of our bolt expand from the heat and break the rust. This can be easily done with a small propane torch. Be careful, this method WILL ruin the heat treatment on stronger bolts. Heat it up as hot as you can get it without melting the bolt. Remove the heat and let cool or pour warm water on the bolt to speed up cooling. Once it is cool, try out the breaker bar again.
With any luck, The heat has broken the rust seal on the bolt allowing it to turn. Since we have the propane torch out, we can also add candle wax to the stuck bolt threads.
Apply a paraffin candle to the cool side of the nut, this will allow the paraffin a lubricating wax to be drawn toward the heat through the threads allowing you to unscrew the nut hopefully. If that has failed, our last attempt to do this without harming the nut and bolt is to treat it with another penetrating agent one last time.
However, this time we will mix up our own. Treat several time over an hour and try to loosen again with the breaker bar. If we are working with a bolt, We will have to drill out our bolt and retap the threads for a new bolt.
This involves picking a drill bit the size of the hole, boring straight in and removing the threads of the bolt. Then, you will need to screw in a tapping tool to recreate our threads. If you need the exact size hole, bore the bolt out oversized and buy a heli coil.
This threads into a tapped hole with an inner diameter for the correct bolt you would like. If you have good access to the bolt another option could be to use a nut splitter.
A nut splitter is slipped over the seized nut, then a screw on the side of the splitter is tightened which forced a wedge into the side of the nut. Keep cranking the nut splitter screw until the nut makes an audible pop and you get through the nut. Back off the nut splitter screw and clean the bolt of the split nut. Try adding more penetrating oil to the newly exposed bolt threads, then use one of the other methods described above to remove the bolt.
With the nut removed, the bolt should be much easier to remove. Unfortunately, this method destroys the nut and every once in a while the bolt too depending on its condition. Simply pound the socket over the bolt head and attach a ratchet. Set in reverse and turn counter-clockwise. You may have to pound it onto the bolt head to make it fit.
If you have the time and money to order specialty tools, try a Go-2 socket. Simply fit it over the stripped bolt and tighten the screw to wedge the bolt head into the socket.
Then use your ratchet to unscrew the bolt. The nut cracker tightens around the hex head and the internal chisel splits the nut. This method only works on stripped nuts. The entire point of heating the bolt is to make it expand and break the rust bonds. Then heat the stripped bolt head or nut until it starts to smoke.
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