We all have had this experience. You consider yourself lucky when you can ease a stuck bolt out with lube and less than gorilla force. We all have tried easy-out tools to get a broken bolt out and well hardened steel is always hardened steel no matter what. For those of us without an aceteylene torch, Here's to you!

 

Boy amen. It's not really a project until it becomes one.

 

Don't over-torque, gotta' stop..."half a turn before it breaks."

 

That’s the calibration I use on the vast majority of “calibrated tensioning” operations.

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