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Re: E-Z Out

To: "William C.W. Lamb" <chip@wmsbrg.com>
Subject: Re: E-Z Out
From: Mike Lee - Team Banana Racing <mikel@ichips.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:56:47 -0700
>I wish. It's flat with the surface of the broken bolt, which is flat with
>the surface of the unobtainium spindle/hub.

Take the thing to a machine shop with an EDM machine?
Is there room between the EZout and the bolt?  Meaning, could you visualize
it as a bulls-eye?  I once broke an EZ-out in a rusted bolt in a suspension
console.  Couldn't get the car over to a machine shop either.  I was able to
use one of those tiny, diamond/carbide (whatever those really hard, expensive
things are) grinding bits to slowly auger out the bolt around the EZ out.
Once I got as far as I could, I whaled on the EZ out with a punch and hammer
and eventually got it loose enough to remove.  I finally drilled out the bolt
using successively bigger and bigger reverse drill bits.  Major PITA, and I
hope I never have to do it again.

Good luck,
Mike

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