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Old 04-06-2016, 10:12 AM
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I highly recommend the bolt extractor made by IRWIN and sold at Autozone, NAPA, among others. It looks like a set of sockets, the inside is a hard and sharp reverse-helix designed to grip the outside of a bolt head or other, IIRC the small set is only around $20.

I bought this set to remove a head bolt that someone had apparently broken a triple-square bit in, ... and left it there, making it un-drillable (almost) and of course there was no way to get a grinder in there, or a Vice-Grip, or any other method to remove the bolt. The IRWIN extractor set worked very well and is now a valued part of my tool set.

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