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There's a special place reserved in HELL for the guy that invented screw extractors. If it ever happens to you again just take a 1/4 drill bit and drill the head off the screw remove the cover and the remaining bolt will screw out with your fingers. Been there!
LOL!
Actually- I did not know there was another way to take out the factory originals without a drill bit! :-P Always drilled them off the get-go and replaced them with some decent hardware.
And he is right, when you get the cover off, the studs will spin out by fingers.
im new to the hd world but have been a mechanic/ fabricator for a lil bit now i like finding a nut that is just bigger than the broken bolt and welding the nut to the broken bolt then just use w.e size wrench on the nut and it comes out like a normal bolt. and alot of times the bolts broken in castiron or alluminum so the weld dosent stick to those metals and even if its 1/4 or 1/8 beond the surface it still works
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