[Healeys] Fwd: Broken Screw

[richard mayor]

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 2:57 PM HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think what Richard is suggesting is to find a nut with an inner diameter
> smaller than the bolt diameter, then MIGing it through the nut opening to
> the bolt and using the nut to turn it out  I'd want to heat up the bolt
> first as it looks like it's probably tightly fused by paint and probably
> rust.  OR ... it looks to be about .38 size.  Just shoot it out of there.
>
> Rick Neville
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 2:25 PM richard mayor <boyracer466 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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. .
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> 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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