There's something physically calming about watching a pro at work...especially if they're not egotistical. Nice job, man!!!

I like that you don't berate and belittle the attempted field repair. So many videos would have been calling them idiots and morons for screwing up the part. Crap happens and it is really crappy when it's in a pinch to get you out of the woods or where ever you are.

@Abom79

5 жыл бұрын

Stuff happens and they were trying to fix that on the beach. I have always asked customers that if things happen like that again to please just bring to it to me instead of attempting to fix it themselves.

I don’t know why, but your broken off bolt extraction vids are always my favorites... Maybe it’s the awesomeness of you doing something in minutes with the right tools that us mere mortals spend hours and hours attempting, sometimes only making it worse. Thanks for all the time you spend to capture this stuff.

Wish every ez-out would break off with an inch to work with! Nice job removing it and repairing the carb. Patience is the name of the game.

Nothing like a mid-week ABOM video to make me happy.

EZ Out. one of the most deceptively named devices in existence. Like you said, they tend to wedge soft metal hardware tighter into the threads. Once they break off, they just compound the removal problem.

Adam, the Knipex Pliers Wrench will always get the job done. Kindest regards Joe.

Never ceases to amaze me what this guy can do. Next thing you know he will be fixing broken harts 😃

I am 61 years old and have been working on mechanical stuff most of my life. I successfully removed a broken bolt with an EZ-Out _one_ time.

@Abom79

5 жыл бұрын

I've had them work for me several time, but the difference is knowing when to quit twisting. Some guys have no sense of feel for them.

@shawnhuk

5 жыл бұрын

You really need to use the right size too... if you use one bit too small you wind up buried up to your neck expanding the whole length of the broken bolt or whatever. I have a set of like 25 of them and I think I’ve used it more as a perfect sized pin punch than twist out...

I was a Ford tech for 35 years, these carbs were bad about breaking that inlet. early on it sucked but once the Torx bit came out they became my extractor of choice. nice job Abom.

Here is a great tip taught by a old timer friend, when it is brass esp, use a saw blade and cut carefully in 3 spots. This weakens the broken pipe and at that point with a sharp punch tap it inward the pieces will fold inward and easy to remove one by one. They use to throw away shop air couplers because the brass couldn't be removed not cost effective till I showed them the air saw technique. If the item is critical do it by hand and watch closely for the sign of thread of whatever you are trying to save. Hope this helps someone out there.

Great vid, Adam. One tool that's not common in shops is a hemostat. This is a surgical instrument that's available in a bunch of sizes, made of stainless steel. They are the ideal 'small needle nose' plier and they have thousands of uses in the shop. A set of three in different sizes is remarkably affordable. Perfect for picking out drilled threads like this.

What do I owe you? For a friend, a couple beers. But in reality some wouldn't realize that was at least a $100 plus job. Always enjoyed helping a friend out like you just did. Nice job, thanks for all the videos.

E Z Out: Never easy; rarely out.

@MikeBramm

5 жыл бұрын

E Z Out describes the money coming out of your wallet. 😉

Awesome job Adam. I did notice something not related to the job though. It might be time to do a little clothes shopping. The weight loss is coming along great. The ones you are wearing are quite big.

And I keep hearing Tom Lipton say "And this is when the car guy takes it to a machinist."

@xenonram

5 жыл бұрын

And, "bozo paid him a visit, and broke the EZ-out off."

I used to be a mechanic. I always kept an assortment of extractor styles, these work like a charm when all goes well. You just have to know when to stop and try something else. You can feel them bite in, and then you will feel it seat in deeper - that is when to stop because at that point the screw is being expanded.

Tapered EZ-Outs should be outlawed. I don’t think I have ever seen one used satisfactory. Nice job getting that out .

@raycrazyraysplace4472

4 жыл бұрын

There for bolts not brass

A little ol' broken _Easy-Out_ ain't no match for one determined *ABOM!!*

I love watching someone who actually knows what he's doing on a delicate job like that. Master at work!

Always cool to watch Abom because he knows what he's doing and isn't going to eff it up....

we all need a friend like you Adam, good job

Adam, You continue to amaze me with your skills and talent to remove these broken off parts. And to be able to fix it like it never happened. I'm also becoming a lesser fan of the so called easy out. I tend to break more of them off than I get the broken part to come out. I'm learning from you that it's better to stop and seek the skills of a machinist before you make things worse. Thanks for another great video.

I have never had an EZ out break off that high. They usually break off at the thinnest point, right above the hole, then the fun begins.

Nice to watch someone who knows their business!

Nice - a good little lesson in how taking the time to get the setup and fixturing right makes it a lot easier during the job. Lesson learned - thanksyou. 👍

Glad you're back doing what you do best.

Once again, its all about straight lines and perfect circles. Enjoyed the clip, ty

Nice work. Reminds me of a cheap truck I bought. Coolant fitting at the back of the manifold had broken at some point, and the previous owner fixed it with steel putty!!!! 🤣🤣 It only busted off when I leaned the engine back to yank the transmission out of it. Once I had it back together and found the leak, I replaced it with a brass barb fitting and some old heater hose out of my scrap can.

It really is a joy to watch you work, Adam.

your customers are lucky to have you around Adam!

Beautiful Sir, like brain surgery. Respect to your friend on knowing when to stop trying to remove the broken piece, could of been a lot worse!

As a machinist myself I've never gotten those spiral EZ outs to work, only the square ones, but 50% of the time I'm fishing out leftover threads with pliers too, super annoying! but great job here none the less.

I'm loving this mid-week fix. Just a little bit, helps out with the DT's!! Thanks man!

Love your videos man! Don't get to watch everyone of them but I can say I have never watched one I didn't like! Keep up the great work man.

I always enjoy automotive or motorcycle related machining videos from you. As always your the best.

I lucked onto your videos and I'm so glad I did, its just such a great pleasure to watch and learn from an absolute craftsman.

Top notch work, Adam! It's great to watch a truly skilled machinist at work, especially when I can learn something new along the way. Thanks for another in a long line of excellent videos!

Really enjoy watching you work, you are a consummate professional. Regards from the UK.

You convinced me some videos ago about using left handed drills. Thanks for the confirmation and great example.

saw this video about a month after he uploaded it and learned a huge amount of things....and six months later I had a similar issue on a metal part. I’m not a machinist so I don’t have the equipment Adam has, but I do have a drill press that I kluged up for a vise-like contraption...bought two sizes of end-mills, a couple of left-handed drill bits and a thread insert Adam uses on some his videos.....everything worked like a charm!

I found that, that type of ez-out always breaks before you get what you want out I use the rigid type never failed to get the broken part out with those . Job well done Adam

Hey Adam ! Just a french cnc guy that wached all your vids. I learnt so many tricks because of you. Keep going. You get me out my daily stress. Thanks and merry xmas. Greg.

Well done. Mr. Whitham will be proud. We need a furnace to melt spiral easy outs down so they can do no harm. _Dan_

Never had any luck with that spiral style of sleazy-out. Tapered wedge style used with a tap handle, penetrating oil, and tapy-tap with small hammer generally works.

This was fantastic. Very different and extremely interesting. Thanks!

Nice job. Love watching you work.

Sir, your approach is fantastic. The pain you take for the solution is commendable. Thanks for the Video. Best Wishes from New Delhi, India.

That was awesome, Adam. You pulled the remaining brass out like an ingrown hair. Aah! Relief! I am sure your friend had a huge weight lifted off his (vehicle's) shoulders.

That is delicate surgery, and well done. Thumbs up!!

I really miss the days when an engine could be connected to a car with 3, 4 or 5 wires (+1 for an after market tachometer) and two battery cables, and had a carburetor that you could modify with jets, boost power by advancing the distributor by rotating it just a touch opposite the rotation of the rotor The best car I ever had was a 1964 Ford Galaxie, with a 390 engine from a '67 Ford pickup truck, a C6 automatic transmission modified with a kit to shift faster.

@stargazer7644

4 жыл бұрын

Do you miss mandatory tune ups, cars that wont start, 10 mpg, poisonous leaded gas and noxious exhaust?

The story of my life. Folks bringing me things with broken easy-outs and or drill bits. I have even had a few of my own but would never admit it to anyone else, LOL. As gramps used to say,"Patience, perseverance and being smarter than the problem will work every time", LOL The old German fellow(Tony) once gave me an iron block with 50 broken off studs of various sises and had me give him the threads as you have just shown all by hand ONLY before I could advance to teach me some patience. I will never forget that lesson till my dying day. Great job my friend. Oh how I wish for even a small mill now.

You asked what we think in the video. I think you are frickin' amazing. Oh ya you're a good friend too. Love the channel.

love these little "how to's" thanks for sharing ...

Another great video. Watching a master machinist at work. You can never have too many of these how to get it out vids. I had a neighbor bring me an exhaust manifold with a broken bolt. He broke an easy out in the bolt and then tried to tap through it and broke the tap in the hole also. He didn't tell me there was an easy out under the broken tap. I tried tig welding a chunk of metal on the tap and unscrewing it eight times and it wouldn't come out. I finally broke the tap with a metal punch and the easy out came out the back end of the hole. I was surprised to see a chunk of easy out fall out. He had even drilled the hole in the broken bolt way off center. I told them if they didn't know how to do it correctly, leave it alone. The machine shop didn't even want to touch it. Thanks for the vid. Dan

Great Video! I love your vids where you teach based on practical applications!! Keep up the great work!

It's always good to learn something new. Especially when it is something you should have seen coming but probably didn't. In the event that a ez-out may be needed make sure it isn't a brass fitting. While it makes total sense now I would have never thought about it swelling up the fitting to be tighter. I had a rounded oil pan bolt that would not come out for the life of me I tried cutting a slot in it, vice grips, then broke an ez-out flush so drilling it out was near impossible. I was venting to a buddy who said hold on try this and handed me a set of craftsman Damaged Bolt/Nut Removers. They looked like little sockets with cutting teeth inside. Kind of a socket version of an ez-out. That bolt came out like butter. Those things are great. Since then I had a friend loose the key to her locking lug nuts and the nut was chromed and perfectly round. Those things even took those off. Neat tools.

I love those Knipex Flat jaws! They work great when you don't wanna mangle a nut.

A good machinist saves the day. Day in and day out.........................

You make it all look so easy... LOL. Nice topic, refreshingly different.

@doubledarefan

5 жыл бұрын

That is an easy pun.

Everyone needs a abom

I swear you can repair or make anything! love your you tube channel and have one of your shirts headed my way!

I got goosebumps watching you pull those last few threads out.

You're a wizard! Love watching your vids!

You are a very skilled machinist.

Sometimes repair work can be the hardest , plus you got to know all the set ups . Nice job Adam :)

Excellent job, Adam.

Good Job Adam Thanks for sharing I'M sure your friend really appreciates you getting that out for him saved a good carb It will be a simple job for him to clean it out put a new fitting in and he will be good to go.

Adam, "You hope we enjoyed watching", ALWAYS! 😁Thx 👌🇨🇦

You are an artist! Thanks for another awesome video!

Nice Job Adam ! Those can be tricky extractions. Well done !

WELL DONE. ADAM. I LEARNED SOMETHING NEW TODAY..

Just finished watching your truck spindle vid, where you remade the spindle. Just wanted to say your looking great. Well done from Australia 🇦🇺 mate.

Great Job Adam, I must pick up some of those L/H drill bits, very useful. Thanks

Sweet job Adam! Ez-Out's (flute extractors) the bane of auto repair shops. In my shop the rule was to call me for help before resorting to using an Ez-Out. There are better "extractors" that can be used; a brand with a shoulder and another that has straight splines for soft metals like brass that won't expand the deeper they go, but need to be "tapped" in with like a 2 ox ball peen hammer. But usually I did what you did; drill the wall of the bolt or fitting with a left handed bit and hope it threads itself out what with the heat (and a quick shot of WD-40 to coll shock the shell of the fastener) created by drilling thru that broken fastener. (Sorry I can't recall the brands of those alternatives to Ex-Out, the plastic boxes or "kit bags" disintegrated many years ago. but the bits ate in a wooden box in my machinists tool box. Or when have to drill to the ID of the threads, "coil it" out with needle nose pliers as you did with that carburetor brass fitting. And if the threaded hole doesn't need to be "fluid tight", I cut a slot into the threads with a hobby file or mini-saw blade to open a slot to allow the "shell" of what is left to pop loose. A ~ 0.035" slot won't weaken the threaded hole enough to ruin what you're trying to save. Surely it is time consuming, but the customer pays for my effort towards saving an expensive component; one that may take weeks to obtain, while tie-ing up a shop bay for way too long and a customer's loss of use of their vehicle.

All about having the right tools for the job.... Nice going

Before I started making videos I was working on a ball turner for my lathe and broke a tap off in it. Ended up drilling it out with a carbide drill to a larger size and remade the handle that screwed into it.

Nice save. Yup, that soft brass will expand from the force of the easy out. If I was stuck on the beach I probably would’ve tried it too.

As always a true craftsman at work

Nicely done. Thanks for the video.

WA perfectionist as always way to go Adam. My respect to one of so few

The knipex pliers are great, the parallel jaws make such a difference..

Wow, awesome work Adam.

I have worked in engineering for years, and have never seen one of those stud extractors working. They snap off and leave you with a worse headache than you started with.

@johansen1010

4 жыл бұрын

They have rarely worked for me so i dont waste my time with ez outs when an end mill cutter and tap gets the job done fast and without stress . Most tasks that arent practiced seem to impress the uninitiated hence the comments praising seemingly mundane tasks such as this . In that light ..... Job well done .

I love this shit, can’t tell you how many times learning this has helped me out 👍

Really learning a lot from you...thanks for share. From Argentina.

Another operating theatre (theater?) victory for Dr Abom...

Good job Adam.

Brass is so soft it had no hope of an easyout working. Great job adam. I've brought parts to a machinist before that I regret "trying" to fix myself. (Drilling a broken headbolt went off center) Almost always cheaper to have a professional take the first crack at it.

THANK YOU...for sharing. Nice fix.

Great job Adam for some reason the boss man looks to me for his broken bolts I guess I have the patience and his customer's tip very well, on average 10 bolts a week plus my regular duties

Thanks, learned couple of things from this video. Much appreciated. TG

Nice job Adam!

Thanks Adam, great stuff.

Abom79 saves the day for Caveman Auto Repair!

Nice save!

Very cool real world repair Adam.

Great save on an iconic car part!

Surgen General Adam does it again, the patient is truly grateful to have that Ezout removed from his behind ;-)

@mohabatkhanmalak1161

4 жыл бұрын

That was a surgery of the throat - carb, taking in air/fuel.................

my last one of those was in a Honda outboard someone left in the test bucket and the water in the bucket froze cracking the pump housing (whole motor $40) I was off a little with the drill so the thick side I was thinning it with a dremel .125 bur then poof felt this tug on the dermal and I look down in the hole perfect threads and I mean perfect then I look at the bur all the threads were wraped around it this is real good content adam helping people (some tips and examles) is a really helpful topic I think wish I could send you a picture of that bur with the threads around it, it looks pretty funny