A day (or two) in the life of Fergie, my MF35.
This will hopefully help anyone who owns or is interested in owning one of the greatest tractors ever made,
Entry for July 22, 2006

By the way everyone, the picture in the first blog, is of me and my wife at one of those old time picture places at an amusement park. We were so cute, weren't we?




Anyway, on with the side adventure. What do you do when the head of a bolt breaks and you need to get the rest out? I mean after you swear a bit. Right that's exactly what I did. Except I got mine at the Home Despot. I love tools, any tools. Any excuse to buy a new tool is exceptable to me. So I needed a broken bolt remover. Not just one though, a whole set, because I wasn't sure which one would fit perfectly. Oh, yes; and the little handle thingy to turn the broken bolt remover.




So off I go. Easy tool to use. Here are the steps I used.




Step 1: Drill a hole in the bolt.




Step 2: Try 6 different drill bits to drill through the alien metal bolt.




Step 3: Try a Dremel tool with a drill bit.




Step 4: Go and buy a carbide bit for the Dremel and drill the hole.




(Hole now drilled.)




Step 5: Pick the right bolt remover tool.




Step 6: Insert remover tool into bolt and turn lightly counter-clock wise.




Step 7: Attach little handle thingy.




Step 8: Turn little handle thingy until it breaks.




Step 9: Use an adjustable wrench to turn the remover tool.




Step 10: Break off tip of bolt remover tool in hole.




And there you have it folks! How to drill a hole in a screw, made of undrillable metal, and fill it back up with an even harder metal. Don't even try to drill out a broken bolt remover from a bolt, nothing on earth is hard enough to even scratch it.




To be continued...




2006-07-22 21:45:09 GMT


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