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Re: Busted Bolt Extraction

To: Matt Kulka <Matt.Kulka@hboc.com>
Subject: Re: Busted Bolt Extraction
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 17:18:46 -0500
Matt Kulka wrote:
> Now I have a real mess.  If I'd have left it alone, I could have drilled
> the whole mess out oversize, and installed a heli-coil.  But I don't own
> a drill bit that can chew into the hardened metal of a screw-extractor.
> I know, because I tried.

  A good local machine shop can remove that via EDM, Electron Discharge
Machining. A really fancy firey process that works wonders.

  The trick is getting it to them.

-- 
Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/

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