I’ve been soaking this bolt for 4 days now and finally tried to remove it. Stripped it out of course. Whats the best way of getting the thing out? Should I grind off the head with a dremel?
Good news is that the screw is probably brass. That will help if all else fails.
- What did you soak it in. Coke is surprising effective at dissolving the crud that locks bolts.
- Look up screw extractor on google. Basically a twist bit with the twist backwards. drill out a pilot hole the correct size for the extractor. Put the extractor in your drill and put it in reverse. Push the extractor hard into the pilot hole you drilled. Lightly trigger the drill to **SLOWLY **back out the bolt.
- If the extractor doesn't work. your next attempt is heat. Use a soldering iron to heat the exposed end of the bolt. A few heat/ cool cycles might break the hold. Try the screw extractor again.
- Last try if nothing else worked. This is where the softness of brass might help.get a drill bit the size of the shank of the bolt, but thinner than the thread diameter. Drill the bolt completely. Since the nut is probably stainless steel, and harder than the bolt. as you drill the bolt, if you drift into the steel nut, the bit will drift back into the softer brass.
Had same problem on new used board…yea, off with the head…I put tape on head (srew head), to keep small size bit from wondering while it made a starter hole, to, per above, use a larger bit-size+ of shank , to drill through the head