Bodging: Share your thoughts

Soak with lubricant and cover with rag soaked lubricant while you go have a curry, come back and attach a socket set handle to whatever screwdriver bit will gain purchase and extend leverage as necessary.

[punyXpress]

That's the trouble with home mechanics!
Neck enough beer and the right curry.
This produces acetylene gas.
Box of Swans & burn the fecker out!
Job jobbed. - you might now need some Vaseline

Use a hammer.

[Jayneflakes]

I would get a large flat headed punch and give the bolt a good smack, this will deform the head slightly and maybe give the right tool a little more grip, it may also crack off anything that is holding the bolt and thus making it hard to undo.

Once that fails, I would unleash a stream of extremely strong obscenities, maybe even calling said bolt an utter £$%* and doubting its parentage.

The next step would be to turn to dark magic and start cursing the very existence of the factory worker/mechanic/former owner who fitted said bolt badly enough to cause such damage. Then with the entrails of a chicken or even local cat, I would summon up Astaroth and send him forth to exact my revenge upon the person who did it.

Once my Demonology session was resolved, I would then have a cuppa and then head back to my bolt. A few more taps with the hammer and punch to see if there had been any change before taking the big step of calling out the wife.

The wife is my secret weapon, there is no bolt she cannot shift, no bearing that can remain stuck fast under her hands and no machine that deny her tools. As a former mechanic and engineer, she has dark magic skills and can do things that I did not know could be done. I recently saw her fix a problem that our local enthusiast bike mechanic could not do. The damage he had done meant that he was looking at taking said bit of bike to our favorite garage, until Carol got to it and gently repaired what had been done.

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

no machine that deny her tools

So Wideboy isn't reading this thread. Pretty sure he would have found that erotic. I did.

Well, it's nice to see that this thread went on longer than expected!

For the record, my bodge was much easier than all the above - I just got two old lengths of cable and wired the drill to the bike battery. Perfectly safe, though, honest