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Re: [Spridgets] removing a broken stud

To: Robert Duquette <robertduquette@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] removing a broken stud
From: Larry Macy <lmacy@phillymgclub.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:12:38 -0400
See Loreena Bobbit for removing studs


On Aug 9, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Robert Duquette wrote:

> My memory fails me, but someone here was having problems removing a  
> broken
> stud ( from a seat belt rear well hump? ) and I passed on what  
> someone once
> told me, though I had never tried it.  The restorer suggested  
> welding a bead
> on the end of the stud, wait a bit, weld a bead on the end of the  
> bead, etc,
> until you had something that you could get vise grips onto.  Then  
> screw it
> out.  The heat and cool recycling should have freed it up if it was  
> seized.
> Here's a similar idea shown in a how-to video.
>
>
>
> http://www.expertvillage.com/video/11073_mig-welding-remove-broken-stud.htm
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