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- From: tmcdonal@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Tom McDonald)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Taps for removing studs... Anyone have luck with these?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.231644.825@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 23:16:44 GMT
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- In article <BtoFAn.AtI@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ljkong@undergrad.math.
- waterloo.edu (Lennard J. Kong) writes:
- > You can try drilling a hole in the stud then using a left handed tap, to
- >screw into it then keep on turning to eventually bring it out. The hardest part
- >is probably being able to drill the hole, I recommend first using a very small
- >bit to make an indentation so that the larger bit will not move around. Yhe above method is proabably the best but requires a lot. Good luck.
- >
- I've broken off bolts before and have tried using these taps, but not once have
- I gotten one out with them. (Out of about 5) I typically end up with a broken
- piece of titanium in the stud, which I then have no chance of drilling out.
- I've pretty much decided that I'll never use one again, however, I was
- wondering if anyone has any first hand luck with these (not just that they're
- theoretically supposed to work.)
- -Tom
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