What home improvement work did you do today?

Welp, I guessed wrong!

 

Almost like it never happened

 

Pics?

 

Oof.

It wouldn't be left hand thread, would it?

 

Tac weld a bolt nut to the face and back it out with a wrench?

 

Cut a slot in it with a Dremel small cutoff wheel to make it a flathead. If that’s hardened steel it may take a disc or two.

Get an impact hand driver, flat head bit in the slot.

Get hammering. You may want someone holding your bar while whackin’. Don’t we all want someone holding our bar while whackin’?

 

He was trying to break it before getting 20 miles on the bike.

Yuge success!

 

Tungsten carbide drill bits. It looks like you've got a good starting point based on the indentation. Start with the smallest bit and keep getting larger, it's called step drilling. Slow speed and plenty of lubrication, cutting fluid would be best, WD40 or motor oil would probably work also. Patience is your friend, so go slow. It might take many hours, or even slip into days. Eventually it will either collapse on it's own or you'll be able to use an extractor. If you have to use one, soak it in penetrating fluid several times for a few hours each, overnight is even better.
As has been said, you have to figure out if it's a left hand thread if you have to spin it out.

 

I've had success with dremmels and making it into a slotted screw before. Those damn aluminum screws get stripped so easily. And a lot of bikes use them.

 

That combined with a hand impact driver is clutch. Everyone should have on in their toolbox. Saved my ass on a number of car/truck door latches in the past.

Though I've noticed with the newer ones (Lisle would be my go-to brand), you need to continue twisting the driver in the appropriate direction or it'll ricochet* back and potentially kick the driver into running the opposite direction. Also, you hammer too hard on something like sheet metal (again, thinking about door strikes/latches), you gotta be careful not to bend the metal with your striking force. My vintage Lisle unit, you twist to click into CW/CCW setting and hold it firmly, it just works. I didn't have the same experience when I decided to refresh with a newer Lisle tool in the last couple years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTQxzxNdKhU​

 

I call my setup a "shouse" at 1500 sqft. 1200 shop and 300 living. Barndo's are big business around here, but very few are prioritizing the shop space. It mostly just means I want a big house and don't care about the outside architecture.

I've been daydreaming lately about doubling the shop space. That would let me add a lift, have a dedicated wood working space, and double the size of my welding and fab area. Maybe someday.

 

Now I have a new tool on my want list. That's a nifty little driver setup. Thanks man. But you're saying the newer versions don't have the click into cw/ccw positions?

 

This is what the motorcycle shops used to remove bar ends back in my crotch rocket days.

 

When we moved here I had to put hardware cloth around the entire perimeter of our house (pier and beam). I ended up doing an “L” shape and buried it at least 3 inches underground and “L”ed it out 3 inches. Some old-timers told me that rodents will dig down, hit the cloth, back up, hit it again, and then give it one more shot before giving up. I’ve also found that putting a bunch of pea gravel down over the hardware cloth works really well too.

 

Yeah....it Sucks down here in South Texas.
You cant have a basement because the water table is so high.
While it can be done the cost is prohibitive.

 

We used the auto pool cleaners for years and for the most part they did a pretty good job.
After having them fail one after another for various reasons we just started paying a guy to do it.
And he deals with cleaning the filters and all the other crap owning a pool entails.
We have a saltwater system and love it!!!
It turns the salt into some type of algae killer as it passes through an electrode by the pump.
And you cant taste the salt at all.
Unless you or your pool guy uses to much of it.

 

They do, but they seem to work differently. On my older silver Lisle, not only is the body clearly marked with "CW" and "CCW" (or forward/reverse or tighten/loosen or something), and it audibly clicks into either position, well-separated, on a whim I got a good deal on this newer Lisle, and it is neither clearly marked, nor does it click into a rotational position. You have to set it into the head of the fastener, then remember which direction to forcibly rotate it to either remove or install the fastener. I found this aggravating as hell.

Don't get me wrong, couple things to say here. One, even with my old one, you must hold and rotate, as you see in that video, the driver, else it won't work properly. Two, my memory sucks, so trying to remember details like that on-the-fly (where a major change comes). Three, I, probably like you, have been wrenching for a long f'n time and I have a lot of older tools. Like my two 20-30 year old Craftsman grease guns that won't die and blow away anything under $100 that's on the market today, I'm rather partial to old stuff that "just works", so it's really, reaaaaaally easy for me to be unimpressed with some newer tools.

EDIT: Ok, I was wrong, my driver is Craftsman also. 47634, not Lisle. Maybe that's the difference. I swore it was a Lisle, and I recall writing on the 1st gen forum where I said it was a Lisle. Oh well.

Anyway, the way the Craftsman one functions, you essentially push in and twist to set the direction and hold it firm, then whack away.

 

Good old Arkansas ingenuity!

 

Necessity is the father of invention.

 

Had a Yamaha GT80 as a kid and the phillips heads on the side case got stripped.
Just took a small chisel and wacked it on the edge of the screw and then hit it at an angle and they'd come right out.
The damn clutch on the thing needed constant adjustments and of course the adjustment point was behind that case so it got removed pretty frequently.

 

I converted mine to salt 19 years ago. Effective and simple to maintain.
It actually pulls the CL out of NACL (salt) and produces free chlorine.