Re: [T3] stripped head stud, and accompanying self-pity..

["Jim Adney" <jradney@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

On 26 Mar 00, at 2:13, Greg Merritt wrote:

> 	Are you familiar with a tool commonly called an "easy-out"?

Don't bother! They are only useful when the stud broke off for a 
reason other than being broken due to too much torque required to 
wrench it out (or after you have heated a steel/steel part.)

Using an easy out will most likely leave you with a piece of VERY 
hard steel buried in the middle of your broken off stud. This makes 
it almost imposssible to drill out later.

I use Ezy-Outs occasionally, but only in selected applications. They 
almost never work in the applications where people first think of 
them.

-
Jim Adney, Associate Researcher
Plasma Physics Group, Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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