Week 2

In week 1 the inventory was completed and bad news, one of the head bolts was broken I needed to be replaced.

Similar to Week 1, week 2 required getting new tools, to complete the repair. Lowe’s was able to provide a screw extractor kit, and it did the trick.

The screw extractor is reverse threaded and requires drilling out the existing bolt that remains until there is enough room to get one of the extractors threaded.

The extractor is phenomenal piece of engineering, very simple yet very helpful. You have to turn them counterclockwise which is not intuitive because you’re removing the bolt. The reason for counterclockwise rotation is because they are reverse threaded, each time you turn the extractor counterclockwise, it draws into the bolt out as small amount.

I was amazed as this is the first time I had attempted extracting a screw and it worked flawlessly

Check out the video https://youtu.be/0XXU9sq4gsU