Catus--Nice video, with lots of useful information. I like the larger internal extractors, which I use on a pipe or connector. Many people think the larger sizes are useless, because they don't have a way to drill a hole for something that size. I realized that you can just wedge them inside the larger piece, then turn them out (no drilling, no muss, no fuss). Something I discovered about plastic pipe and soft metals (brass, aluminum, etc.): You can't use the spiral internal types on them. After several tries, I found that wedging the spiral types into plastic starts out okay, but when you turn them they begin to abrade the plastic; it will just spin and then let go. For those, you need the tapered, square-sided extractors, like the large 1-1/16" Proto you showed us. The sharp corners on them dig in and won't let go. I use a 12-pt. socket to turn them, which seems to work okay. I don't have any 4- or 8-pt. sockets, so I use what I have available. A combination wrench (either end) would also work and, on smaller extractors, a tap wrench. I have a set of concave-shaped square extractors, made by Irwin, which were not expensive on Amazon; a 6-piece set was under $20.00. I find they are really handy removing broken-off plastic risers and sprinkler heads on my lawn's irrigation system. I had not heard of the "Aces" brand, which apparently were expensive to purchase. The Craftsman set you showed (brown metal) look exactly like a set of Lisle #62900 Super Out Extractors I have (but have never used). The Car Quest splined extractors look nice, but I've found the more points/splines you have on an extractor, the less effective they are. They don't seem to bite in as well as a four-sided one will. As you know, we don't use these every day, but you need a variety of types on hand to deal with all the "Oh, shit!" moments that can occur.
@CatusMaximus
6 жыл бұрын
The concave ones really do have excellent grip and soft materials as do the square ones for the most part. More flutes really is for bolts where the strength of the extractor flutes means a lot is very stubborn high-strength bolt would just destroy a for flute concave extractor as a flutes would strip out before removing the bolt. You make an excellent point it is very nice to have a variety of extractors because often they break and often you need one particular type of extractor for a particular job
@scottl8137
3 жыл бұрын
Do they make anything to extract a 3" black steel nipple?
@billlee1724
6 жыл бұрын
Hell yea!
@CatusMaximus
6 жыл бұрын
:)
@trankt54155
5 жыл бұрын
HF sells a set of bolt extractors but they don't work well at all....
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