snapped bolt

Left hand drill bit and once you've got a hole started, a stud extractor - Machine Mart sell them.
You can also try mixing up your own ease-oil - a mixture of auto transmission fluid and acetone (the wife's nail polish remover). Brake fluid and acetone apparently also works, but brake fluid ain't exactly compatible with painted finishes.

 

Then all you need is a match how can one bolt be so much trouble dougie

 

I have heard it said that Coca-Cola is a good penetrating fluid.

I kid you not, though I've not tried it myself.

 

Sometimes you really do begin to wonder just what you are eating/drinking!

Doesn't stop me doing it, though!!

 

What still eating Plactiscene, I stopped doing that when I left infant school, or is it some sort of delicacy in East Yorkshire.

 

He has taste bud damage from drinking all that bolt loosening coke

 

Well at least the bloody thing is out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Dougie unfortunately this will always play with your head when removing bolts now.

 

Well I am glad its out and I am sure these things are sent to try us.

 

Slips down nicely with a splash of WD40!!

 

Don't want to know about your love life thank you very much.

 

A ha, Loctite. Heat gun is great for releasing it. However no good if there are plastic parts near by or paint that will damage.

 

You might learn summat!

But ... maybe not.

Anyway, my memory's not that good!!

 

Hoorah! things like this real pee you off and have a nasty habit of sticking with you for a while when you do other spanner jobs. Next time remember Plus-Gas first, spanner second.

 

I thought plus gas was replaced by wd40 ??

 

They are completely different products Peter. Both good in their own way, but Plus-Gas is the one to use when wanting to shift stuck fixings.

WD-40 is a Water Dispersant which means it chases water away, it's not really conceived as a lubricant at all.

 

I will have to convert to plus gas then, when I see it.

 

Halford's usually stock it