My best luck has been to weld a nut on to the stud or brken bolt.
I use a wire welder and this heats the stud first, not the surrounding
material.
What I have not tried yet is to extend a stud briken off below the surface by
adding globs of welds.
>Thank you to the many folks who helped with suggestions for removing the two
>bolts that had broken off in the cylinder block of my Austin seven. I
>managed to fix things using ordinary means. One bolt was drilled and
>tapped. The other I was able to remove using heat and vice grips. BUT, I
>had to use an oxyaceteline torch and WAY more heat than I have ever used on
>cast iron before. I can report that the block did not crack (at least not
>where I can see ).
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Brian Borgstede !
Distance Learning Engineer !
University of Missouri - St. Louis ! '68 Triumph TR-250
Phone: (314)516-6433 ! (or two or more)
Fax: (314)516-6019 !
Email: borgstede@umsl.edu !
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