5 Easy Tricks HOW to Remove Rounded Stripped Allen Hex Bolts FCA Screw

[Music] hey guys what's up and welcome back to the channel my name's chris and in this video i'm going to demonstrate five easy ways to remove rounded stripped or damaged allen hex socket bolts but they're better known as socket head cap screws there are lots of different variables when using fasteners from rust dirt and debris or even loctite before i cover the five simple techniques that i use and are really successful with let me show you just some of the few fastener types that we're going to be talking about today as the probability that you need to replace that damaged fastener is really high you might want to head down to your local ace hardware where they can help you find many different fastener types here you can see this socket head cap screw now these are all metric we'll throw up some suggested torque values on there because in addition to making sure your fastener is properly tightened you don't want to over tighten it here you can see the flat countersunk head cap screw again these are all in metric and here's some torque values for them and here's another common one the button head cap screw and lastly here is a socket set screw notice that i didn't say the word bolt that's because all of these fasteners don't have a nut attached to it now let's get on to the top 5 easiest fastest and most efficient ways to remove damaged hex allen socket fasteners [Music] so here we have an m8 fastener we're going to go ahead and tighten this down to a little over 37 foot-pounds and one of my favorite things about all the demos i'm going to be doing is i'm going to be making sure they're torqued down to real-world scenarios where your fasteners are super tight and this is actually really a lot of torque on here so you can see we torqued that down to 40.2 foot-pounds and you can see that that's a lot of torque that it even jammed up and bit into that hex fastener slightly because that's a lot of torque on there we're going to go ahead and now round out this fastener there you can see we are nice and fully rounded out go ahead and zoom in here for you here we have the ingersoll rand tech solutions eight piece metric non-slip hex bit socket set they also do come in sae let's go test these out and see how they work these we need to tap these in just a little bit that way you're fully seated in there and we're going to be using an impact driver on this now we do have quite a bit of play in here so it may not work but you can see you were able to zip off that hex that damaged hex came right off you can see that ingot rain had no issues taking that off another option is your mac tools rbrt for rounded bolt removal technology let's go test them out so we'll go ahead and tighten this fastener down again to around 40 foot-pounds that's a lot of torque on here so we tighten that down to 40.5 foot-pounds and now we'll go ahead and try our mac rbrt for rounded bolt removal technology again we'll go ahead and tap that in here and then we'll use our impact and our mac rbrt was able to remove that so we'll go ahead with our standard hex and see if we're able to remove this and we are not able to remove it and that is actually fully damaged so this is where the question becomes if you're too late to a damaged fastener are you able to get this off with one of the removal technologies for damaged fasteners chances are you are not because you're going to need a percentage of the side walls still available whether you use the mac rbrts or even the ingersoll rand so we will try the ingersoll rand here and see if we're able to remove this and because i only have one chance at this i'm going to try the impact wish me luck and we are not able to remove it which means the mac rbrt will probably not be able to remove it either we're gonna go ahead and just turn the mac rbrt by hand but again chances are because that fastener is so damaged yeah we're not able to remove it with the mac rbrt as well so now what do you do when you're in a situation like this you can try your bolt extractors in this case this one is going to be too short we'd have to make sure we go out and purchase a new one or lock this down and see if we're able to get it out so if you get in a pinch and you find yourself not knowing what to do sometimes you can jam in a torx bit inside there and then it creates its own threads but honestly your best bet is some of the triple squares those really really fit pretty close on a lot of rounded off hex fasteners and it's easier to pound that in you may not be getting it out anytime soon but it does work and a lot of times it helps to grind those edges down we're going to see if we're going to be able to do that without that today i'm really liking our odds with this torx t45 bit so we're gonna go ahead and snug this down and you can see we're at 33.5 foot-pounds go ahead and see if the torx bit is able to take this off and there you go you don't have to believe it but that's pretty impressive now a triple square has more splines on it than a torx bit so this works really well on very rounded fasteners let's test it out so again the triple square had no problem blazing through powering through that damaged hex allen fastener let's try something else so if you're not already subscribed to the channel go ahead and hit that subscribe button that way you won't miss out on any future upcoming videos like when we go ahead and stress test all these adjustable wrenches or you could try a slightly larger hex bit and that's what we're going to do we're going to try to pound this in and then see if we're able to get it out in this case we created a whole lot more of a mess but we're going to see if we can put maybe a socket on that hex so we're going to use a deep well on there and thankfully we were able to remove that we'll again go ahead and tighten this down tighten that down to 38.3 foot-pounds and i'll admit i don't always have the best luck with left-handed drill bits but we will go ahead and try that and see if we're able to force that out so when that's really tight there just isn't any way that that left-handed drill bit is going to grab that fastener and remove it that's when you're going to want to try something like your canipe x cobra we'll go ahead and attempt to remove that here and you can see that pliers is a good option as well as your vice grips or another set of vice grips over here so pliers are really really good options on fasteners like this so other ways to get that off might consist of using a channel lock and a channel lock will do it another way might be a nice pair of vice grips with really really nice new sharp teeth on there locked in there and then you're able to remove that with a pair of vice grips so again when your fastener is really damaged you might try a screw out an easy out a speed out or anything that's going to be able to extract this but in my case this just didn't work because it wasn't big enough so what other options do we have left well let's go ahead and tighten down this fastener and show you the option where you basically grind out a slid and then simply use a flathead screwdriver and unscrew it so let's get to it so that was pretty easy we used the hercules grinder there and we were able to use a cut off wheel and just cut out a slit in there now simply select your favorite flathead screwdriver in this case we're going to use the icon screwdriver because it's got that bolster nut on there we can attach a wrench to it and then we can apply a lot more torque so without that wrench we wouldn't be able to have enough torque there you can see we were able to break that free and basically just unscrew it like a regular screw so not a problem you can see the icon screwdriver held up very well it's not bent or deformed and it worked really really well so again go ahead and tighten this down to roughly around 40 foot pounds so we tighten that to 40. foot-pounds which again is way more torque on that than you would need and another option you might consider is putting a nut or another type of fastener on top of this so that you can get some traction [Music] so the key here is it just has to hold it doesn't have to look pretty it's just got to hold let's go ahead and see if we're able to take this off and we're able to remove that fastener with no issues thanks to that nut that we welded on there now depending on your application you're bound to run into some red loctite or even the green wicking kind depending on your application if you're using smaller fasteners just a soldering iron will simply do the trick for some of those smaller fasteners that are damaged or you want to ensure they come out now on the larger ones you can use a little torch like this or even a larger one this simply helps to melt and unbind that thread locker or loctite and it really helps to ensure that you're not going to round off that fastener the first time it makes your job a whole lot easier now the last super simple easy piece of information i can embark on you is if you're using a metric tool make sure you're working with metric fasteners you can see that this one is a really really good fit it's because it's the right style for the right fastener now if you use the wrong one in this case this is an sae it's 7 30 seconds you can see that there's a large amount of play sometimes you might have to see which one's going to work best for you if you don't immediately know what type of fastener you're working with so what did we learn today when it comes to five easy tips tricks for rounded stripped hex allen socket screws fasteners bolts well there's a lot more than five easy tips and tricks there's options like ingersoll rand and mac rbrt which might work one day but then the next day you get to a more damaged fastener you're going to have to use something else pretty cool how that triple square works as well as that torx bit when you jam anything in there hard enough it creates its own new path and allows you to remove a fastener we saw the grinding wheel cut through one of our screws and allowed us to use a flathead on that well it might work on a smaller size fastener some of the larger ones it might not we saw that we were able to weld a fastener on and remove it with a standard socket when it comes to working with metric fasteners you're going to want to use a metric and when it comes to working with sae you're typically going to use sae now we did run into that one situation where we had a damaged metric fastener where we were able to jam in that quarter inch hex and was able to remove that fastener so there's always going to be exceptions to the case and that's what you get pliers for you got your easy outs when it comes to loctite or thread locker you're going to want to use that heat i typically don't use my left-handed drill bits too often but if those work well for you let everybody know down below in the comments if there's a way that we didn't cover today again let people know down below in the comments what you've had a good experience with or what doesn't work for you really appreciate you guys all tuning in if you're not already subscribed to the channel go ahead and hit that subscribe button and as always work smarter not harder and we'll catch you in the next video [Music] just a friendly reminder go ahead and hit that subscribe button [Music] you

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Length: 15min 38sec (938 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 23 2020