In a pickel -- any ideas to help extract this tiny sheared-off screw?

[Bill Bowman]

Thanks for the followup!

 

[dfiler2]

Glad you got it out.

 

[jsaw]

Lad to hear You got it. Sounds like You learned a new skill.

 

[The Cobbler]

great outcome. patience is golden, or so they say . apparently I still have a hard time with it .

 

[olytdi]

HA! Me too. After all these years, I still have to go back to basics and talk myself into a thoughtful, patient approach.

Thanks for all of the support! Makes this forum great!

 

[drmarkr]

Okay, wanted to follow up on this in case anyone brain farts to the degree I did and ends up in a similar predicament.

I got a 1/16 left-handed drill bit and placed the dog collar receiver in a vise on my drill press table. Because my drill press does not go backward, I then placed a hand drill in another vise above it and made it plumb. I then simply slowly raised the drill press table (probably a hundredth of a inch at a time) with the work up into the stationary drill bit that I had turning counter-clockwise at the slowest speed possible (probably about 45 rpm). Kept things centered by looking through a desk magnifier the whole time. It took about 45 - 60 minutes of really slow drilling before it became evident that the bit wasn't going to just grab and extract the screw shaft. So after going full depth in the broken-off stud, I then used the awl on my Victorinox Multitool and sort of gently seated the blade side of the awl into the inner wall of the hole I had drilled. With slow and gentle pressure, I was able to back-out the broken stud and put the new one in without snapping it off this time!

Anyway, I just wanted to follow up on what happened. I am glad I was in for only $6.95 for a bit and an hour or two of time instead of having to fork over the $$$ for another new receiver. Slow and steady wins the race.

Now if I can just learn from this...

See, you DID use an easyout!! A homemade one!

 

[mmb617]

Thanks for the follow up. Man that's a good feeling when you realize it's starting to back out.

 

[CraigStu]

Glad to see this. I don't know if I could have drilled on that thing for 45 minutes. I'd like to think I could but.........Congratulations on fixing it.

 

[driftpin]

You did it! On to the next problem. There are always problems.