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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agesilaus wrote:westend wrote:
Heat always works when rust or binding is at hand. For a fastener of that size, a propane torch will ease the binding.
Yeah that was my first thought. Heat it up. I've found a combo of PBlaster first followed by a propane torch frequently works. The PBlaster will catch on fire so keep that in mind.
I'm a believer in PB Blaster, but for best results on really tough items you need to soak it multiple times and keep it soaking wet for like a day or even two to let the PB Blaster work thru the MUCK.
I'd go that route and instead of heating or hammering on it I would try a real powerful IMPACT wrench/gun on it. Multiple quick hits close together can bust loose a lot of things much better than force or single impact hits.
Larry
