| Jeff,
You're an inspiration to us all.
Mark S. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:56 PM, <stevei@carey.asn.au> wrote:
Congratulations Jeff
That must have been a moment of great relief.
Steve Izett
On 01/02/2011, at 1:26 AM, Jeff Whaley wrote:
We were minutes away from an engine tear-down, when we tried one more time to extract the broken tension bolt. The bore scope allowed us to see exactly where the pilot
hole was drilled into the broken piece; the left-hand drill bits would not grab on and extract the part but did help in enlarging the hole and perhaps loosening the threads a little. Ultimately I was able to start an easy-out with light tapping and it grabbed
on – the result is in the attached photo. The easy-out is welded to the end of the original broken bolt and you can see that a spiral of RTV was applied to the length of the bolt between the threads and the bolt head.
Jeff
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