jack dauth
Member
hey my bolt is stripped soooo badly and i need to get it off to tighten my compression please help, but maybe something a little simpler than a drill, thanks.
Does anyone know how to get out a stripped bolt!!?!???
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What kind of bolt is stripped, either a compressionbolt or a bolt in clamp?
If compressionbolt, please describe what kind of compression system you run.
Did you stripped the threads on the bolt or rounded the hexagon insert for the allen key?
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What kind of bolt is stripped, either a compressionbolt or a bolt in clamp?
If compressionbolt, please describe what kind of compression system you run.
Did you stripped the threads on the bolt or rounded the hexagon insert for the allen key?
jack dauth
Member
it is not the compression bolt that is stripped, it is the top bolt in the clamp, like the hexagonal one insert for allen key has rounded heaps, although the threads on the bolt are still fine...... PLEASE HELP ME.
Scott Freibaum
Steel Member
drill it out
Yea, there are a few ways to get it out:
1) do what Scott said: drill it out. First you should apply some WD-40 or some sort of oil (engine oil does fine too) and let the oil set in to the cracks between the bolt and the clamp threads and the socket part where the head of the bolt is. If it's a standard 6mm bolt, then use a 3-3.5mm drillbit and drill it it from the reverse end (do not drill the side of the bolt that has the insert, but the tip of the bolt itself), and once the drill locks into the bolt, the bolt should spin out. Sometimes drilling on the right side using these screw extractor drillbits can fix the problem aswell.
2) If the bolt sticks out from the otherside, you can use an angle grinder to make a little notch into the bolt and use a flathead screwdriver to screw it out the correct way. Do that only if the bolt sticks out a fair amount, otherwise when the end of the bolt reaches the clamp and you're unable to continue to screw your bolt out, you should be able to grab the head of the bolt with nosepliers on the right side. If the bolt isn't longenough, use a hacksaw or angle grinder to snap the bolt in half through the clamp: the right side piece should fall out by default and the left threaded side can be unscrewed out from the left side.
Let me know if one of these methods succeeded or not.
1) do what Scott said: drill it out. First you should apply some WD-40 or some sort of oil (engine oil does fine too) and let the oil set in to the cracks between the bolt and the clamp threads and the socket part where the head of the bolt is. If it's a standard 6mm bolt, then use a 3-3.5mm drillbit and drill it it from the reverse end (do not drill the side of the bolt that has the insert, but the tip of the bolt itself), and once the drill locks into the bolt, the bolt should spin out. Sometimes drilling on the right side using these screw extractor drillbits can fix the problem aswell.
2) If the bolt sticks out from the otherside, you can use an angle grinder to make a little notch into the bolt and use a flathead screwdriver to screw it out the correct way. Do that only if the bolt sticks out a fair amount, otherwise when the end of the bolt reaches the clamp and you're unable to continue to screw your bolt out, you should be able to grab the head of the bolt with nosepliers on the right side. If the bolt isn't longenough, use a hacksaw or angle grinder to snap the bolt in half through the clamp: the right side piece should fall out by default and the left threaded side can be unscrewed out from the left side.
Let me know if one of these methods succeeded or not.
This is one very good point that i forgot to mention. Thanks.
jack dauth
Member
i stretched the 2nd and 3rd bolt and started twisting the forks out of the compression and then they fell out the bottom of the deck, then to tighten it i just twisted the forks back into the tilt top cap compression in the clamp (that was stuck on the bars) to tighten the scs. ill definetly try the 2nd option u gave me though because ive heard it before and i think it will work,
Thanks
Thanks
jack dauth
Member
because all i needed to do was to tighten the scs
but thanks anyway
but thanks anyway
connormack
Bronze member
You can hammer the bottom of the clamp up until its past your forks then take you bars off and then hammer it back down that's what I did when that happened to me
Michael Osterlund
Steel Member
if you want to fuck up the threads I suppose you could hammer the threaded part on the other side out.
Jack Cronin
Steel Member
Same thing happened to me today I took a hacksaw and cut the bolt in half then used needle nose pliers to twist the otherside out
Sk8erzVideos
Member
I would take out all the other bolts then chop it if it's at the top