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What have you got for a broken easy out in a broken bolt on a vertical surface?

blind squirrel wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 11:19 am What have you got for a broken easy out in a broken bolt on a vertical surface?

Sounds like you need to do a search...like we asked you to do when you signed up. What are you, blind?

EDM. Assuming that the item is valuable to you.

blind squirrel wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 11:19 am What have you got for a broken easy out in a broken bolt on a vertical surface?

Having had to attempt to drill out a broken easy out, I can say, without equivocation, a nuclear warhead.

bungie4 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 11:30 am

blind squirrel wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 11:19 am What have you got for a broken easy out in a broken bolt on a vertical surface?

Having had to attempt to drill out a broken easy out, I can say, without equivocation, a nuclear warhead.

Let me expand on my previous post.

EDM --or-- MDM.

Either way you would be looking for a machine shop to do the deed. I believe that bungie's suggestion of a nuclear warhead is actually a bit... conservative BTDT.

Six $350 carbide endmills to remove a $3 easy out. That's how it works.

blind squirrel wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 11:19 am What have you got for a broken easy out in a broken bolt on a vertical surface?

X-Tractalloy electrodes. Used them many times, they really work!

After doing some research, I think I will end up going with a Dremel carbide endmill, time, and patience.

blind squirrel wrote:After doing some research, I think I will end up going with a Dremel carbide endmill, time, and patience.

AND SAFETY GLASSES.

I'm not normally a safety nazi, but carbide is very brittle. Using it in a non-rigid tool (dremel as opposed to a bridegport) it will break. Probably several of them will.

Carbide has an unnatural link to the unholy which guarantees a microfragment will take up residence in your cornea. As much fun as that sounds like, it really isn't. Medical bills are expensive. Pain is undesirable. Safety glasses are as inexpensive as they are dorky looking. Use them.

NAZI!

silverback wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 3:12 pm Medical bills are expensive.

And you'd be required to add that into your final tally of what it cost to remove the bolt.

wheatonFJR wrote:NAZI!

Looks aren't everything you know!