Eazi come, Eazi go.

I've been spannering my vehicles for around 34 years, & never had need
for a stud/screw extractor until yesterday, when I needed to use them -
twice.

I now have two extractors snapped off inside two bleed nipples. Arse.


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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

I have a snap-on extractor set. The 2 and 4 mm versions broke when used
long ago. Yesterday I tried the 6mm to remove a cheese screw from an
alloy bar......it broke.

On the up-side my new cobalt drills ate the extractor.

 

I think not - there are far more fun ways to ****-up broken bolts.
What's more I've just removed the calipers from the dishwasher to
discover one of them's now cracked, thanks to said extractor. Which I
guess means it's junk even if I could get the extractor & nipple
remains out.

Yebbut he's a ****.

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Unused?!!

 

I'm glad it's not just me being a ham-fisted twat then.

I don't think I'll even try drilling them out, given the importance of
the seat for bleed nipples. Time for a trip to an engineer methinks -
or just swallowing the shipping cost of getting new calipers from
Mercania.

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The extractor was the last resort, having already tried:

1. Soaking in Plusgas for several days.
2. Heating with a blow torch.
3. Cutting a slot in the end & using an impact driver.
4. Calling it a cunting pile of shite & vowing to track down whoever
had previously rounded it off & torturing them for eternity.

I suspect sub-consciously I was hoping it would ****-up, thus giving me
the excuse to buy a nice new set of stainless-sleeved O-ring calipers.

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Hmm. "Broken screw extractors", eh? Krusty already has two of them.

And it's "shear" not "sheer", "sheared" not "sheered", not to mention
it should be "an" not "and", followed by "any" rather than "and" btw.

How this semi-literate has accumulated so much pos feeback is beyond
me.

 

You want a Harris[1] mount for that steering damper?
I've got a few kicking around here from a stock
clear-out, so let me know your address and
I'll chuck it in the post.

[1] If you don't want the Harris marked one
I have plain ones as well.

 

Worth their weight in gold is a good engineer with a workshop full of
gadgets. I know one in Halesowen who has got me out of trouble a
couple of times. Very good at drilling out screws. He also helped me
continue vto get a sprag clutch apart once the broken screw had been
removed. Not apparent from the book of lies how to do it, particularly
when it had been made difficult by someone (not me) assembling it with
one screw missing and skewing the cover plate. He pulled out the
remains of the retaining spring and rollers and pressed the persuaded
the plate out with a small press.

 

Surprises me, does that, because I've discovered that if you get a
caliper/nipple really, *really* hot, then it will always come undone
cleanly. I don't touch a bleed nipple, these days, without giving it
serious welly from a blowtorch. Unless I know I've had it out myself
recently, and used some Copaslip on refitting.

Still on calipers, as I might have mentioned here, my Ducati's finally
getting near pad replacement time, after well over nine years and
28,000 miles.... For some reason, those Brembo four-pot calipers never
seem to seize up. My local Duke dealer confirms that: says he has no
idea what they make the pistons out of, but they don't corrode.

This is just as well, as Brembo doesn't supply rebuild kits for them,
for product liability reasons. We've mentioned this here before, as
the same calipers are used on some BMWs. So if something does go
wrong, you need to buy whole new calipers, at £140 each.

Anyway, I picked these up on Fleabay: http://tinyurl.com/284hzn

Happy bunny am I. They're absolutely perfect. They're going into my
stash of "parts I don't actually need yet, but might some time".[1]

[1] This includes a brand new Ducati tacho, speedo drive, fuel level
sensor, and innumerable new components[2] for various SOBs.
[2] Brand new complete OE exhaust for the 250, switchgear for the 400
Four, ignition points for the Z650...

 

Did you? D'Oh. It's monday and I've only had one
coffee so far; I'm not quite with it yet.

 

I'm sorry to have to point it out in such a brutal manner.

I'll look and email you revisions ;-) Normal consultant rates apply,
natch.

 

They're all fine but for one very minor typo in one listing. Pahnd.

 

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Hmm. Pahnd, it says.

In the listing for the RH bar the last word on the top line of the
description is "possible", where it should read "possibly".

 

Originality has never been my strong point.

'Specially now you've gone and changed it all.

 

About the right price, tbh. I don't think I paid much
more than that for the ones I bought not so long ago.

I've still got all of the road kit for the 600 if
there is anything you need ... headlight, rear
light, clocks and a few more bits and pieces.

Oh, and I also have a pair of OEM 750SS fairing
panel stickers that I picked up for you if you
send me an address to mail them to.

 

I like the deliberate mistake, obviously done to comply with the rules

 

I dunno Champ, maybe you should be looking for another proof reader, your
present one has missed a mistake in item 180084961070

 

....and items 180084952456 & 180084951251, 200m should be 200mm (I think...).

 

Only 10%. Mind, I had to check it was a mistake, 'cos there is a word
"wel" in the cloggy language and it looks normal to me.

Oops.