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| Author: | Zizzle [ Sun May 14, 2006 12:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | ideas: small broken bolt/screw |
When taking my door stops off the screws broke off in the little backing plate. 
One is flush, one is raised a litlle. How to get them out? I have a stud remover but it is far too big. I double I would be able to drill a hole in the remaining screw shafts anyay. Does that little plate come out easily? |
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| Author: | TheMiniMan [ Sun May 14, 2006 12:08 pm ] |
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die grind a small flat area on them,,,then centre punch right in the guts of em, drill & re-tap the threads easy-peasy well,,,easy-peasy to say/type 
have fun man |
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| Author: | Angusdog [ Sun May 14, 2006 1:19 pm ] |
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Spray CRC / WD-40 / ant-sieze spray on them, leave them a while and use a screw extractor. But gently - if you snap the screw extractor in there, you won't be able to drill them out. You could also use a Dremel with a cutting disc to cut a slot and use a screw driver. Or drill them out, but I find it's a little messier as you need to get all the old thread out. |
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| Author: | JC [ Sun May 14, 2006 1:29 pm ] |
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Failing that, cut off the panel, I would hate for it to not be the only new bit of metal in the whole car....... |
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| Author: | Zizzle [ Sun May 14, 2006 1:42 pm ] |
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OK, it wasn't that hard after all. I could run them through instead of unscrewing them out over the rusty thread. Like Matt said, grid a flat spot, punch, drill. The hardest part was finding a drill small enough. Lucky I found an old PCB drill. Probably 0.9mm. Next problem: it was too small for my drills chuck to grip. Found a bit of 2mm brass rod that I had already soldered a PCB drill into for this exact reason. 
The first (raised) one started to go through just with the drilling but stopped flush. So I kept drilling then went and found a really really small self tapping screw. Smaller than the thread. Put that in the hold and screwed the lot through. The second one was easier, just went through while drilling. Easy peasy 
Yer, good one JC 
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| Author: | JC [ Sun May 14, 2006 4:45 pm ] |
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I thought my suggestion was much, much better. |
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| Author: | TheMiniMan [ Sun May 14, 2006 6:18 pm ] |
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yeah, sometimes you just get lucky & the whole thing screws itself out while you`re drilling, but then other times it`s a blind hole or something else is in the way behind or whatever, glad to hear the good news & yeah, well,,, John (striped) would probly rather just fit an all alloy keith Black V8 into a babys pram, that would be easier than some mini jobs hey? |
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| Author: | 9YaTaH [ Sun May 14, 2006 6:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | liddle screws.. |
For liddle screws like the ones here, that screw into a floating plate.....I would be inclined to try cleaning the surface as described above then soldering a T bar/brass screw thread or sumpthin to see if it will unscrew...done that before with some suck cess 
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