seven ways to remove a broken screw
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Published 2015-04-10
All Comments (21)
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I watch this every morning to start my day and get me fired up.
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Disregard the negative comments or the "thumbs down". Make your own video before criticizing someone. Excellent job for those of us who may run into this issue. Thanks for sharing.
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that music is soo chill. made me think about my life and shit
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Thank you! Method 1 helped me remove a broken power steering bolt from the engine block. So relieved to not visit a mechanic over that. Took about 5-7 minutes of tapping the screwdriver, till I finally reached it with needle nose pliers and then fingers. Much appreciate your video!
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Hey, that's the same music I use, when I torture people in my basement. :-)
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Thanks for posting. I like how you showed these different ways of tackling this issue, very thorough and detailed. Great job!
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You saved my life. Pulley bolt on my washing machine snapped and I don’t know how much it would have cost to fix without this video. Thanks to you, I got the snapped screw bolt out and it cost me £4 to fix my washing machine. Thanks!
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One of the best ways I've found to remove broken bolts is to use a tool of some sort and cut across the bolt surface to create a groove/slot for a standard screw-driver. A "dremel" (rotary tool) with the tiny cutting wheel works best for nearly every application. As long as the bolt isn't rusted in or bottomed out in the hole, the bolt will turn out. Using heat will make a big difference if it's a stubborn bolt.
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watching this video leaves me in dispair.
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You could also cut a slot with a Dremel and remove it with a screwdriver
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Great video as a young (still learning) mechanic myself i sometimes break and strip a lot of old rusty bolts all the time. these methods are life savers because knows if you dont know how to get a bolt out it will hold you back hours on a job. sometimes simple jobs which suck. thanks
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Without this upload… I would’ve never heard this smooth instrumental. 5yrs late but thx
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I want to deeply thank you for this video. It saved me from a serious issue I had with my car. I broke a bolt on the coil pack and lucky me it had a small topper left to hammer with a wedge. it knocked it loose. Thanks.
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You can also drill with about 3 mm drill and hammer a TORX bit into the hole. Works great on M6 bolts and other smaller ones. This method doesn't ruin the thread if you drill carefully. And also usually once the cap of has been removed from a bolt that's stuck, the rest of the threaded part comes off really nicely.
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I was so frustrated that couldn't think of how to do it other than the removal kit. Thank you for putting it all together.
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If you have part of the stud protruding out of the hole, you could partially grind a parallel flat on the stud and then use some pliers to spin it out of the hole. Or you could grind a slot in it and use a slotted screwdriver to extract it as well. But there is many way you could go about this. There really isn't a wrong or right way as well. As long as you are able to remove the broken stud and not damage the threads, you are golden.
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I'm not lending this guy any of my screwdrivers.
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Thank you for these complete recipes. They would have saved my day more than once if I only had known some of them. In my humble opinion, most of the dislikes (1635 versus 2328 at this moment) may come from people already experienced on this, so the video did not add up to their knowledge.
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Thanks for the helpful video. I just used technique #1 with a jewel screwdriver and a light hammer to extract a tiny broken screw from a $700 piece of lab equipment. Only took 5 minutes.
