How to remove wedged or shanked bolt
This is a new one for me. Hopefully someone has a trick that works. Keystone put their own bolts in the pinion mechanism on my slides (see below). It was supposed to be fully threaded 1/4 inch bolt bu...
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Using a bigger hammer is a must, using a small hammer just peens them to death.
If you leave the bolt sticking out past the hole and end up mushrooming it you have to cut it off flush and punch it out.
Using heat, penetrating fluids, twisting it and pounding to drive it out are all good ideas and can work together to get it out.
At a machine shop I worked at, if we had an expensive piece that we had remove a stuck bolt from we sent it to a company that used sound waves to loosen the bolt. That was in the mid 60's.
If you leave the bolt sticking out past the hole and end up mushrooming it you have to cut it off flush and punch it out.
Using heat, penetrating fluids, twisting it and pounding to drive it out are all good ideas and can work together to get it out.
At a machine shop I worked at, if we had an expensive piece that we had remove a stuck bolt from we sent it to a company that used sound waves to loosen the bolt. That was in the mid 60's.
