rear caliper pad pin stripped!
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From: Delawere
Cutting the head to allow use of a flathead screwdriver is a great idea, but if the bolt isn't broken loose yet it's likely to just break the screwdriver. I would suggest an impact driver to remove it if you're going to cut it. For those who don't know an impact driver is basically a large cylinder that can either accept sockets, or screwdriver bits, you place it on the bolt and apply pressure on it like a screwdriver, then tap it with a hammer and the force is transferred to a twisting motion to break loose fasteners
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The best thing you can do for your friend is let him get the bolt with the stripped head out. He'll never take vice grips to something again unless it's a last resort. If you do it for him, you'll have to do it for him again.
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good point. Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for life....unless he can't cook then he's ****ed.
Another 'lesson' to take from this is that it is (almost) always worth buying (or borrowing) the correct tool, particulalry when the tool is cheap, and the job is likely to be one you'll do again - changing brake pads definitely falls into this category, especially when the tool gives you change from 2 bucks 
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I've always worked on my own euro bikes (BMWs, Ducatis) myself and have gradually collected most/all the tools for those. It was a pain doing it all over again when I got my dyna (all the quaint old-English tools with thirty-three bumpteenths of an inch and whatnot were a mystery to me, other than as historical novelties), but now a few years in, I'm glad I took the time, as all routine maintainence etc is a breeze and they have definitely saved me bucks overall.
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.I've always worked on my own euro bikes (BMWs, Ducatis) myself and have gradually collected most/all the tools for those. It was a pain doing it all over again when I got my dyna (all the quaint old-English tools with thirty-three bumpteenths of an inch and whatnot were a mystery to me, other than as historical novelties
), but now a few years in, I'm glad I took the time, as all routine maintainence etc is a breeze and they have definitely saved me bucks overall. .
Last edited by Davdoodles; Apr 22, 2017 at 08:30 PM.
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Bullshit - it can be eaten.., or used for bait to catch more
And it don't taste like chicken (bland cardboard)
Damn near the perfect food
Ghost
And it don't taste like chicken (bland cardboard)
Damn near the perfect food
Ghost
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....I've always worked on my own euro bikes (BMWs, Ducatis) myself and have gradually collected most/all the tools for those. It was a pain doing it all over again when I got my dyna (all the quaint old-English tools with thirty-three bumpteenths of an inch and whatnot were a mystery to me, other than as historical novelties ), but now a few years in, I'm glad I took the time, as all routine maintainence etc is a breeze and they have definitely saved me bucks overall.
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), but now a few years in, I'm glad I took the time, as all routine maintainence etc is a breeze and they have definitely saved me bucks overall. .
Reminds me...I think I have some Whitworth wrenches around here...I'll look
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They have their uses - but should be used judiciously
I trust you've removed the caliper from the bike - while you're beating / banging / grinding on this F'd up bolt head
Personally - I'd tack weld a nut - edge ways - then use that to remove the bolt
Ghost
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