F*CK!!! What would you do? Advise?

[Ian]

Originally Posted by 300hp owen

drill it out as on-center as possible with a small drillbit, then work your way to larger drillbits one after the other, being patient and using cutting oil to keep them from breaking.

after you reach the right size drillbit you will have removed all of the bolt except for the bolts-threads that are left in the hole.

these can then be removed as one long spring-like piece of spiral steel stuff and usually will come right out easily from all of the heat generated during the drilling process.

no re-tapping required as long as you stayed on center with your drilling!
even if you have wiped out some of the threads from going off center, you will still be fine to not re-tap the hole if its an application like that where you are just looking for clamping force and the seal is made with a gasket and not the threads.

good luck.

That's way hard and time consuming though. Honestly, do you think if he had to ask this question, he has the tools/skills to make that happen?


Easy-out/extractor is one good idea


or just take it somewhere to get it removed, that'd be what I would do in this situation just because the headache of messing up way outweighs the cost to have someone do it