screw extractor

[Hank McMauser]

Don't have any pictures but I picked up a #6 screw extractor today for $1.50 & it's U.S. made
it's the little things like this I like to pick up cost less than a coffee at the foo foo coffee places
Hank

 

[Mickey O]

And exactly what do you intend to do with this reasonably bought screw extractor?

I just picked up a set of Proto square screw extractors a week or two ago, must be that time a year to get screw extractors.

 

[mrshaun]

he is going to break a big bolt and try to get it out......

 

[Hank McMauser]

the size it is it's great for getting out 3/8 npt fittings when they get broken,twist off when replacing. mostly on air lines either customers compressors or on the delivery trucks at the shop. The reason I bought it ws going to remove one such brass fitting on a trailer brake line on one of the trucks,but it was too small(just barely started grabbing the insides before it slipped all the way into the fitting....doh

 

[MikesTTGt]

Does anyone have luck with these type extractor sets? Ive used the spirol/fluted ones that are longer but most the time they snap off inside the broken bolt, the best way ive found to get a stubborn broken bolt out is to weld a nut and washer to whatever is left, or the double nut method if enough is exposed.

 

[Hank McMauser]

Ny Dad has/had a set like the one you've pictured when I was a kid,but I never used them, I've always used the longer ones like you describe,usually in the larger sizes & most have been bought singly,one at a time. I usually use them inside smaller 1/4 or 3/8 brass pipe fittings as mentioned above,but have also used them to remove stuck cartridge case from a reloading dies(word of caution here don't recommend using on magnum cartridges there's not enough meat in the die and they tend to split open from the pressure)