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Re: [oletrucks] Off Topic.....Set Screw Extraction

To: "tcape" <tcape@weblnk.net>, oletrucks@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Off Topic.....Set Screw Extraction
From: Bill Bailey <billb@gamewood.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:57:37 -0500
At 11:32 AM 03/15/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Sorry for the off-topic post, but I need some help getting a set screw out.
>Along with working on my '47-2, I'm restoring a '66 Mustang.  The shifter on
>the console has a "T" bar on top which comes off by loosening a set screw in
>the side of the handle.  Only problem is that the set screw comes out with
>an allen wrench, and the allen wrench hole has been stripped out.  How can I
>get the set screw out?  

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Tom
Generally when this happens to a Ford it is considered totaled and is
shipped off to the boneyard! 
;)
Just kidding, the left hand drill bit trick mentioned by others works real
good.
Bill Bailey
57 Chevy 3100
Danville, Virginia
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