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- From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: How do you remove frozen, stripped screws?
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 21:48:31 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Message-ID: <1gljrfINNdk6@gap.caltech.edu>
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- csk@wdl50.wdl.loral.com (Chuck Kuczaj) writes:
-
- >I've tried penetrating oil, heat, hammers, and other things, but the
- >basic problem is still the fact that one can't exert enough force on
- >a stripped screw. Is there any kind of special tool, which when
- >"clamped-on" to the exposed screw head, allows for the exertion of much
- >greater torque? Obviously, I've tried using the "vice-grip method".
- >What I'm looking for is a more optimal solution.
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- If there is anything left of the original screw head, an impact screw
- driver will work wonders.
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- Jon Hacker
- Caltech, Pasadena CA
- hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
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