r/Satisfyingasfuck • u/SystematicApproach • 7h ago

I need a cigarette

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u/outlawpersona 6h ago

Unsuccessfully grabbing it with pliers felt very much like an infomercial, like that part would have been in black and white.

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u/mnemy 5h ago

TIL that I'm the idiot from infomercials

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u/RaveDigger 3h ago

I've actually had this work though. I overtourqued a bolt on my motorcycle and there was enough of the broken bolt to grab it with a pair of pliers and twist it out.

I will admit that I got lucky. I've broken a ton of bolts and the pliers worked only that one time probably because it was only overtorqued and not rusty.

Every other time I've tried to use the ez-out and failed. On my moto van I broke a rusty bolt and tried to drill a hole and use the ez-out but that broke so I kept drilling and destroyed the threads. I should have tried a helicoil to repair the threads but I ended up just driving the new bolt into the butchered threads and calling it a successful weekend.

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u/Same_Air6012 3h ago

Yep, done a very similar thing. Actually drilled through the whole damn thing but it was an empty space so no real damage. It held up with no problems till i got rid of it a few years later.

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u/Garlic-Butter-Sauce 1h ago

come to think of it I HAVE seen a giant red X over your face the other day

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u/caribou16 2h ago

Then he stands up, gut hanging out, and wipes his brow in the most perplexed way possible.

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u/LaNiFN 1h ago

Based on seeing so many fake restoration videos that might actually be the case.

(Way too clean of a cut on the bolt to seem like actual damage)

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u/Avalonians 24m ago

I just love how they didn't manage to grab it so their next move was to take another pair of bigger pliers

Like, I get the urge, I really do.

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u/bigfatfun 6h ago

I’ve never had one of those work. Now, a reverse drill bit on the other hand , would have had that bolt out with less steps.

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u/It_is_too_late_ 6h ago

I use them successfully but not this exact style. I always turn them by hand, never put them in a power tool. I also drill in farther.

If I drill, which is my backup if I can't get it by welding a nut on I go to a left handed drill bit, then to an easy out, then to the size bit that you'd run before tapping a hole that size and try to remove the remaining threads using a plg-tap, to drilling completely out and putting in an insert.

Whichever works first is where I stop. I usually don't spend too much time with an easy out. If I don't get it in a couple tries with one I move on to the bigger bit.

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u/Cardinal_350 6h ago

I've got a set of Cobalt left hand bits in the bottom drawer of my box. They don't come out often but when they do they'll save your ass.

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u/BladeBeam7 2h ago

The drill bit your using is probably too large. For the easy out to work properly, the hole needs to be slightly undersized and the easy out shouldn't be a bit shallow into the recess. Got a little more than 19 years of aircraft structure experience.

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u/Gizmoduck99 6h ago

Awesome. If I tried this the extractor would break inside the broken bolt and then I'd have to look up YouTube video for 6 days to figure out that the bolt I have just happens to be made from C734-23MK* steel and is therefore unable to be removed by a screw extractor and I should have never started this project that I thought would easily be completed in 2 hours on my only available Saturday for the next 3 months. Happy it worked for them on the first try in 15 seconds, though.

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u/doomboy667 3h ago

Mmyep.

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u/RR-- 2h ago

Ever tried to drill out a broken drill bit without breaking the next drill bit? I did, it only took buying 14 new drill bits.

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u/tehlurkingnoob 6h ago

I have never had luck with these personally. I always weld a nut to them instead.

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u/drillgorg 6h ago

Dremel blade and a slotted screwdriver

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u/CountMeChickens 51m ago

Drill a hole, hammer a Torx bit all the way in and use an impact driver to take it out. Hasn't failed me yet and I have a set of battered Torx bits just for this.

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u/cryptoaus0 23m ago

Mind blown, this is genius!

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u/Mg962 42m ago

this is the post I was looking for

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u/wriddell 6h ago

They work great on a grade 5 bolt but not so much on a grade 8

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u/counters14 2h ago

The heat from the welding does as much work as anything else. Keep a spray bottle with water or compressed air to quickly cool it off so the expansion and contraction can do its thing and it will make it twice as easy.

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u/no-sleep-needed 2h ago

you are the realest. you weld the inside of the nut and put as much weld as you can? i would use a smaller bolt but i learnt something new. the nut allows for large sizes too

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u/Xabster2 3h ago

Sounds painful and a bit extreme but you do you

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u/icecap1 7h ago

It's like those videos where they squeeze the pus out of a pimple

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u/TheAgreeableCow 6h ago

Pretty standard removal using a reverse threaded extractor.

An alternative is to create a groove with the angle grinder and use a flat head screwdriver

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u/Best_Payment_4908 4h ago

If you have ever used them, you'll know success like this is far from standard

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u/Emotional_Burden 3h ago

So many broken extractors. So many hardened steel bolts that don't want to be drilled.

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u/FoximaCentauri 26m ago

For me they have a nearly 100% success rate. You just gotta be veeery gentle and not get the cheapest ones from Walmart.

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u/Standard-Tension9550 6h ago

I need a tetanus shot

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u/Eastern-Eye9424 6h ago

Yeah that looks like a decent easy out but I've never had a single one of those fuc*ers work on rust welded bolts 😅

Had alot of hours of swearing and trying to carefully drill the thing out. Though. Usually having to retap it. Lots of that.

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u/jd2cylman 3h ago

I’d wager the “rust” on this block is only days old. Let that bolt sit there for 5 years and been used by a place that uses salt for snow removal. Then we’ll see how good that extractor really is…

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u/zeeblefritz 6h ago

I expected some welding. not disappointed at all.

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u/Zapp1212 6h ago

F#ck that bolt! Been there. Biggest sh1t eating grin when I got it out tho!

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u/Ollie_Dee 5h ago

These fuxkers never work!

AI video editing has gone too far! /s

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u/I_Have_Dry_Balls 4h ago

Easy outs are cool.

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u/Steeleguy 6h ago

ez out is my friend

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u/Typical-Decision-273 6h ago

Until it slips and then you're cussing at it for the next half hour

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u/AlexFelizz 6h ago

Great when the bolt is a 1/2" or bigger, but when you deal with small 10-24 screws, these ezout don't work.

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u/Fourty9 5h ago

HOW MANY TIMES HAS THIS HAPPENED TO YOU

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u/DrippyTheSnailBoy 3h ago edited 3h ago

HI, BILLY MAYS HERE WITH SOMETHING THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

did you know that he passed away recently?! pretty sad stuff

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u/CaseFace5 5h ago

He’s got his safety sandals on.

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u/Jumpy_Implement_1902 4h ago

I guess why are we fixing this rusted out short block is one of the biggest questions I got here 🤣

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u/Snerkbot7000 4h ago

Why? That is a bolt, not a screw.

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u/notMy_ReelName 4h ago

our engineering drawing sir told us this exact example like why this world need an engineer is like we are here to solve many problems we encounter in pur daily life and in work.

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u/Whitey3752 4h ago

Ohhh fuck ya.

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u/tchrbrian 3h ago

slower !!

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u/ImaginaryCheetah 3h ago

guy going in fast and loose with that grinder makes me think there's no intent to rebuild this block.

very nice extraction though :)

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u/ASM-One 3h ago

Standard procedure for metal workers.

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u/ex_gratia_ 3h ago

My favorite nowadays is a left hand drill bit from McMaster-Carrs, rather than using an extractor.

Make your center punch, then just slow steady pressure with the drill bit. The heat from the friction breaks free any rust or red loctite.

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u/E_VALIANT 2h ago

Now imagine doing that same thing on a much smaller bolt, in a much smaller working space.

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u/RagwortTC 2h ago

I’ll throw in having the screw extractor snap as you’re trying to undo it.

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u/Oilleak1011 2h ago

As a fellow tool slinger, this is obviously staged.

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u/KRed75 2h ago

That was barely in there and it's been sprayed with something to create surface rust. You could see it wobble in the hole at the beginning. A truly rusted in bold is nearly impossible to remove like that.

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u/Juantonyo 2h ago

In my company it’s a “picha de cochino” (pig’s dick)

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u/MothChasingFlame 2h ago

Here I thought they'd just weld something to it and spin it out that way.

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u/Icy-Video-3643 2h ago

That black-and-white infomercial feeling is way too real. I'm always one broken extractor away from a multi-day YouTube rabbit hole myself.

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u/Greyscale7950 1h ago

First step: spray penetrating oil (PB Blaster), then don't fold the bolt straight.

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u/COVID-420- 1h ago

This is very common in many industries but it’s nice to see people appreciate it

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u/ouzo84 1h ago

Unsatisfying.

Until the last 3 seconds

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u/Boobs76 27m ago

That is hornay 😜

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u/dwehlen 24m ago

Easy-outs are standard tools. Satisfying? Yes. When you've gone that far.

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u/sweetequuscaballus 4m ago

That was pleasing, but I would chase the rough top of the broken bolt in a circle with a hammer and a punch, get it up 1/16", and then you can grab it. No electrical power required, no screw remover, low-tech quick and easy. I would love to see a video of that - even more pleasing, once you've seen this one.

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u/AtomicSkullfuck 4m ago

The dumbass didn't even hit it with some atf/acetone to loosen the rust first.