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Subject:Re: hex bolts
From:David Brodbeck
Date:Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:26:50 -0400

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Dan Barrett wrote:

> Read you loud and clear re. hex bolts -- try getting the AC compressor bracket
> off after thirteen years.  Boston Bob recently cued me in to the ultimate
> stipped bolt / nut tool: Channellock's "Nut Buster":
> <http://www.channellock.com/acb/stores/2/product1.cfm?&SID=2&Product_ID=40>

Looks like a useful tool.  The only problem is, when I strip an allen head
bolt, it's almost always in some godawful place that no other tool will
fit (which is probably why they used an allen head to begin with!)

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si