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[Andy B]

I broke a die yesterday (die creates a thread on a bolt, tap creates thread in a nut), cleaning up a damaged thread on a TRE.

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As above .... HTF do you manage to break a die?    (split die or die nut?  )

[Andy B]

I broke a die yesterday (die creates a thread on a bolt, tap creates thread in a nut), cleaning up a damaged thread on a TRE.

Trouble with stud extractors like Easy-Outs, which you won't come across in a classrom environment, is sometimes they can be rusted in solid.

try doing snapped stud on a 1931 ford side valve engine ******** nitemare of a job took 2 days

I'd give up & get it spark eroded 

[Webby the Bear]

ps, think i'm going to snap this up... £1.40 with free delivery 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-PIECE-PCE-DAMGED-SCREW-EXTRACTOR-CASE-BOLT-SCREW-STUD-REMOVER-EASY-OUT-/120970567505?pt=UK_Hand_Tools_Equipment&hash=item1c2a685f51

[Marks DTM Calib]

A piece of advice, don't ever buy easi outs as that way you will never be tempted to use them.

If you do get tempted to use them then the normal outcome is a stud or bolt still stuck fast in a piece of metal that now has an undrillable lump of hardened steel in it.

[Abiton]

I bet they're really high quality...

[henryd]

I broke a die yesterday (die creates a thread on a bolt, tap creates thread in a nut), cleaning up a damaged thread on a TRE.

Trouble with stud extractors like Easy-Outs, which you won't come across in a classrom environment, is sometimes they can be rusted in solid.

try doing snapped stud on a 1931 ford side valve engine ******** nitemare of a job took 2 days

I'd give up & get it spark eroded 

That's what we used to do back many moons ago in our toolroom,we had spark and wire eroders,spark eroders very slow going though but about the only thing that will touch a broken tap or stellite drill.

[Andy B]

A piece of advice, don't ever buy easi outs as that way you will never be tempted to use them.

If you do get tempted to use them then the normal outcome is a stud or bolt still stuck fast in a piece of metal that now has an undrillable lump of hardened steel in it.

I witnessed a genuine miracle on Saturday afternoon! An Easy-out was used with success on a sheared/rotted off stainless 'stud' in a stainless filler bowl!!! I really thought it had snapped when it suddenly removed the stud with all Almighty CRACK!!!!!!!!!!!  And .......... the tap wrench used was a 6" adjustable! 

 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Miracle, praise the lord.

Hateful things

[symes]

Miracle, praise the lord.

Hateful things

+1

[Andy B]

Miracle, praise the lord.

Hateful things

I have on the odd occasion used them with some success, but on the whole, you're right. End result is a hardened Easy-out snapped off in the end of the bolt/stud you wanted removed in the first place. Generally, if the bolt head snapped off, it was f....ing tight & your Easy-out will be piddling in the wind. 

[henryd]

Miracle, praise the lord.

Hateful things

I have on the odd occasion used them with some success, but on the whole, you're right. End result is a hardened Easy-out snapped off in the end of the bolt/stud you wanted removed in the first place. Generally, if the bolt head snapped off, it was f....ing tight & you're Easy-out will be piddling in the wind. 

Yep,bloody useless things created to make a difficult job harder.

[symes]

Miracle, praise the lord.

Hateful things

I have on the odd occasion used them with some success, but on the whole, you're right. End result is a hardened Easy-out snapped off in the end of the bolt/stud you wanted removed in the first place. Generally, if the bolt head snapped off, it was f....ing tight & you're Easy-out will be piddling in the wind. 

Yep,bloody useless things created to make a difficult job harder.

did he/she have anything to do with omegas

[Marks DTM Calib]

I scrapped a KA cylinder head after somebody snapped the horrible taper seat spark plug off that had welded itself of into the head and they then paniced and tried an easily out which also snapped.

One of the other issues is that if the item you are trying to remove is tight then the easiout taper can actually spread the remaining metal making it tighter

[Lazydocker]

Used an easy out once, never again

Actually, as it happens, I didn't snap it because I was sensible and paid attention to the warning signs but vowed from that day on I wouldn't ever try one again

[biggriffin]

used one of them horrid things once,got such a telling off, o the innocent of youuf.