[Healeys] Fwd: Broken Screw

[richard mayor]

Mike,
I just looked at your photo and I would like to add a correction.  The
broken off "screw" you described looks more like a broken off bolt to me.
You can safely put a two second first tack on the end of that one to get
things started. .

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From: richard mayor <boyracer466 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 26, 2020 at 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Broken Screw
To: Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net>


This is what I would do. Using your MIG welder, put a tack weld on the end
of the screw.  A short one second tac for the first one . Then stack
another tack or two  or three or four on top of that. Using a pair of vise
grips, twist the tacked on tacks. It may easily break off the first time or
even the second time. That is a good thing because you only want to tack to
the end of the screw and nothing more. The heat will break the rust bond
and the screw will come out easily.
Drilling and attempting to use easy outs are a waste of time and most
certainly you will bugger up the threads no matter have meticulous you
are.  Been there and done that many times.

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:05 PM Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
wrote:

> Went to install the rebuilt horns on my BN2 last night and could only
> screw one on the cross member of the frame.  The other mounting hole were a
> problem.  Somewhere, sometime in the past whoever removed the horns snapped
> one of the screws off flush with the frame.  Best way to get this out?
> Must have been corroded in place to snap off like that.
> Mike MacLean
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