In addition to these excellent suggestions, on our car restoration class, we also use heat--a hot hair dryer held in place for several minutes..in addition to the penetrating oil and tapping. This often works on really rusted and stuck screws. joyce
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com> wrote: > Chuck, > How would you Dremem-wheel cut a flush or embedded screw-head without > damaging the surrounding surface? > CMW2K, > DonO > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Chuck Alexander <chuckalexan...@hughes.net> > *To:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com ; > simple-living-in-the-computer-...@yahoogroups.com ; fly fishing for > panfish <flyfishingandflytyingforpanf...@yahoogroups.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 01, 2010 12:32 AM > *Subject:* [VFB] Stripped screw remover tools > > Folks: I'm posting this to all these groups cause even though it may sound > off topic, it's really not, cause MANY ppl have to deal with rusted bolts, > screws. etc. Any of us who have even done any mechanic work know what a life > saver an Ez Out can be at times. So, I started seeing commercial lately for > these tools that will extract stripped screws instead. It looked like magic > on TV (like always) LOL... I got a set of three tools, to remove screws > sized 1, sized 2, and sized 3. One end has a left handed drill bit thingy to > ream out the hole. Them, the other end has a square, or rectangular "bit" > that removes the stripped out screw. My son bought himself an old Dodge Ram > 50 pickup, and the carburetor was flooding BAD and I needed to rebuild it, > but it was like the screws were welded into place LOL.. What I ended up > doing was to take my old trusty dremal tool, put in a 1" cutting wheel, and > cut out as "slot" all the way across the head of the screws thus turning a > Phillips head into huge flat head. It worked and I was able to remove EVERY > screw. > > So, if you are need of something like, save your money and buy the dremal > tool cut off wheels instead. NOW.. Since the carb is in 100 pieces, whether > I get it all back together is anybody's bet LOL.. The rebuilt kit is > supposed to be in Wednesday.If you hear LOUD cursing, that's just me down > here in Bama, trying to get it back together LOL, Chuck > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
