Success!

[Coyote Chris]

Success! Kind of a gloomy day so I decided to remove the stripped out side cover screw on my VFR. It is a little known fact that Honda hired a orangatan with a propeller nut torque wrench to put these screws in. By a combo of a hammer driver , easy out, and dremil tool and an hour of bad words, I broke it free. Here are pics of its location, and the screw after removal.

 

[ColoradoRod]

wooo hoooo! I love it when things like this can be accomplished. Gotta love EZ-outs.

 

[Coyote Chris]

wooo hoooo! I love it when things like this can be accomplished. Gotta love EZ-outs.

Actually, If I hadnt had a chicom easy out set, and chicom drill bits, this would have gone alot quicker.....but they are so cheep that they wont drill into a bolt that can easliy be stripped out. Once I got the chicom dremil attachments to cut the notch, the easy out back threads caught it. The trick is to find tools that dont come from China.

 

[mikesim]

Amen to the Chicom tools. If you have a screw that you suspect will be a SOB, before you booger it up, line up an impact driver and bit. If you have a pneumatic impact, all the better. Then take a rubber band and insert it in the recess and then insert the bit. Rubber bands have a wee bit of abrasive in 'em and the also take up the excess clearance in the fastener. The abrasive in the rubber band assures a good grip.

Mike

 

[Bear]

Great tip about the rubber band. Thank you, Mike. The only tools I use are Craftsman (The old ones), Kobalt, and S&K (hard to find) Some of the "Pittsburgh" brand at Harbor Freight is OK, but you have to be careful--just like there is a huge difference between Made in China and Made in Taiwan.

 

[ST1100Y]

Tip from experience: a small dab of copper slip (or AntiSeize) on the threads, should prevent any fancy language in the future...
(did so years ago on every fairing bolt of my ST1100... a Loctite 8065 Copper-Stick comes very handy...)

 

[mikesim]

Tip from experience: a small dab of copper slip (or AntiSeize) on the threads, should prevent any fancy language in the future...
(did so years ago on every fairing bolt of my ST1100... a Loctite 8065 Copper-Stick comes very handy...)

Very proactive! I usually think of that sorta thing "after" I get it all put back together. Then I make a mental note to do it "next time". Next time rolls around and I will remember my mental note "after" it is once again put back together..... <sigh>......



Mike

 

[ST1100Y]

Very proactive! I usually think of that sorta thing "after" I get it all put back together.

Nah, more a BTDT issue...
Once you've cussed over a number of stuck bolts and cross-threaded speed-nuts you make some countermeasures a habit...