Remove bolt that is snapped of in brickwork?

cctvtobeornottobe · Mar 7, 2019

i was fitting a set of gates and the bolt snapped.

i have tried drilling the bolt in the brickwork but my drill bits are not touching it.

any ideas on how to get this out, if its possible?

thank you

westward10 · Mar 7, 2019

I would have it out in 30 - 45 minutes, the bolt that is.

buzzlightyear · Mar 7, 2019

westward10 said:
Patience will get it out

he could ring him up and ask .

buzzlightyear · Mar 7, 2019

[ElectriciansForums.net] Remove bolt that is snapped of in brickwork?

this might come handy .

snowhead · Mar 7, 2019

Patience is here and she's brought some help

Deleted member 26818 · Mar 8, 2019

Cobalt drill bits are the only bits that will do anything.
If they don’t work, you’ll have to drill down the side of the bolt.

Squid · Mar 8, 2019

Cut the head off a bolt super glue it over the hole collect money disappear...........

davesparks · Mar 8, 2019

Left handed drill bits are my preferred method of drilling stuck bolts.

Squid · Mar 8, 2019

Core drill around the outside of the bolt if you can't get it out by using HSS drills and a bolt extractor, then use one of those resin bolt kits to fix a stud in to the hole. Ignore baddegg as he doesn't have a sense of humour.........

Baddegg · Mar 8, 2019

Ha ha apologies swd I didn’t mean to give you a disagree,

rsgaz · Mar 8, 2019

For anyone not yet sold on cobalt bits, I drilled a hole, through a drill bit! To prove it's not just some picture I found on the interweb, there's my username in the pics...

3.0mm split point HSS-Co bit into 12mm HSS-G...

snowhead · Mar 8, 2019

static zap · Mar 9, 2019

Baddegg said:
If we going all out.......do you have access to a welder?

This could make " BaddEgg"
.. Improvised Stud of the Weak ..
-(Bolt replacement )- Then just add nuts !
...(insert groan here)...

PEG · Mar 9, 2019

rsgaz said:
For anyone not yet sold on cobalt bits, I drilled a hole, through a drill bit! To prove it's not just some picture I found on the interweb, there's my username in the pics...

3.0mm split point HSS-Co bit into 12mm HSS-G...

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This would be very impressive,if it was on the flutes.....

You have drilled it,in the soft part.....check if you want,using a file.
This is why you can file the pips and scuffs off,that slipping in a chuck causes.....but you don't use a file,for sharpening the same bit

Adrian1958 · Mar 10, 2019

cctvtobeornottobe said:
i was fitting a set of gates and the bolt snapped.

i have tried drilling the bolt in the brickwork but my drill bits are not touching it.

any ideas on how to get this out, if its possible?

thank you