When things go wrong …

WE’VE all done it. You’re trying to shift a tight bolt and it won’t move. You reach for the breaker bar, give it nice big heave and your joy at feeling it come loose turns to dismay as you realise the bolt has snapped off. What next?

I have to deal with seized fasteners quite a lot, and the first point to make is that it is far better not to get into a snapped bolt scenario in the first place. If a fastener will not undo, stop and think before getting medieval with it. A few minutes spent persuading it to come loose could