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On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:19:46 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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I'm curious why you doubt a screw extractor will help. This is exactly
what
they're designed for. I've used them and they work.

If you couldn't break the bolt loose with a properly sized SIX POINT
socket, how is a smaller extractor which tends to make the bolt bigger
going to do anything?
If it's stuck, 12 point sockets suck!!!
If you did the same amount of prep work (heat, solvent etc) as people
use by the time they get to the extractor stage, before you rounded
the head off in the first place, the bolt would have come out with the
socket.
When you are working on an outboard, or anything with steel threaded
into aluminum, if it isn't coming out easy, STOP!
Use the heat and solvent before you trash the bolt.
At a certain point, grinding the head off may be the easiest option.
Then you have something to grab onto and you can get to the base of
the trhreads. Extractrors are for bolts broken off flush and if it was
that easy you wouldn't have broken the bolt in the first place.

Use antisieze on everything when you go back together.

I guess the several successes I've had were hallucinations, caused by an
overdose of Cheerios & strawberries, or whatever I had for breakfast when I
used extractors in the past.

In the cartoons and childrens' books where extractors are used, they work
because they exert their force over a much larger surface area than a socket
on the head of the offending bolt. But, this is just a fantasy. And you have
cooties.