How would you remove this broken screw?

[bicketybam]

Snapped clean off inside the front voltage hobbies chassis brace. You you try using an extractor or slot with Dremel?

 

[iLikeRCs]

I usually drill in with a 1,5mm drill bit and either drill it out or hit a torx bit inside and remove it with that torx bit and a electric screwdriver

 

[Be Ready]

Use An easy out tool... Drill it out.

 

[WTF MIKE]

Snapped clean off inside the front voltage hobbies chassis brace. You you try using an extractor or slot with Dremel?

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Might be a long shot but does it stick out of the bottom?

 

[bicketybam]

Might be a long shot but does it stick out of the bottom?

No, unfortunately

 

[WTF MIKE]

I had the same thing happen

No, unfortunately

i would slot it with a dremel from the bottom side. Or try to drill it out with a lot of bits. Then tap a m4 screw in there

 

[Mr.Duke]

I'd use about a pound of Tannerite.
More if I wanted to anger the neighbors down the road

 

[olds97_lss]

I'd slot it with a dremel, heat it a bit with a torch, then back it out with a standard screwdriver.

If it was 4mm, then perhaps an ezout would work, but I'm not sure if there's enough material in a 3mm to drill it properly and use the ezout. I never bought an ezout... I just dremel them with a thin cutting disk and know I'm going to notch whatever it is I'm removing it from.

 

[Jimbobjr]

Does the hole go through? If so try drilling it from the other side and it may catch and unscrew itself. Since the bolt head is gone there won’t be too much tension holding it in there. If it’s a blind hole than the Drexel slotting method as mentioned above. If you drill it from the top it will just get tighter unless you have a left handed drill bit and easyout.

 

[Mongoose]

is it a blind hole or does it go thru?

 

[V1p3r_83]

Drill it out and then tap it (re-thread the hole)

 

[Wmorgan]

I'd try drilling it out.

 

[bicketybam]

It's a blind hole....well not anymore. I drilled it out. Too small to slot and too small for the extractor. I have to tap it which I will at some point. What a pain in the ass.

 

[olds97_lss]

If you want to stick with 3mm so you don't have to drill out the hole in the steering plate, go with a helicoil. I thought about drilling mine out on my hot racing brace, but I'm not sure there would be much material left on the steering plate once drilled to 4mm, so I didn't. I just didn't care for the thought of using a 3mm screw there. Would rather it was a beefier 4mm.

 

[WTF MIKE]

Moving forward I now use a longer m3 screw and if it breaks I’m able to get it out from the bottom.

 

[Mongoose]

If you want to stick with 3mm so you don't have to drill out the hole in the steering plate, go with a helicoil.

I like your style @olds97_lss helicoils are great

 

[Jimbobjr]

Didn’t I see somewhere guys drilling out the top plate and brace and using a 4mm screw with a nut on the top of the steering plate? You could just drill through the brace, drill the top plate 4mm, put the screw in it from the bottom up through the top plate and some lock tight and a nut on top. No tapping needed and way stronger.

 

[WTF MIKE]

I like your style @olds97_lss helicoils are great

What’s a helicoil?

 

[Mongoose]

A threaded insert. So basically you drill and tap a hole specified by the size helicoil you plan to use, then thread the helicoil into the hole.

For example, if you put a helicoil in plastic, the screw would be threaded into the metal helicoil rather than the plastic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_insert

 

[WTF MIKE]

A threaded insert. So basically you drill and tap a hole specified by the size helicoil you plan to use, then thread the helicoil into the hole.

For example, if you put a helicoil in plastic, the screw would be threaded into the metal helicoil rather than the plastic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_insert

Thank you that is very cool