Stuck Screw Removal

[DirtySteve]

Are we making headway on this?

 

[centershot]

Have been out of town. It has been soaking since I left. Will give you a progress report.

 

[centershot]

Got home, gave the screw a good rap with the screw driver/hammer to no avail. Put on more Kroil. The seam at the back of the side plate where there was a bit on rust is now getting sticky. Don't know if that means anything. Will try a soldering iron later.

 

[Nick Caprinolo]

Something to consider. I am sure that any competent machine shop could extract this for you very quickly. A gunsmith is also a very good alternative.

 

[Wingnut00]

Warm up the area around the screw with a small torch and when everything is good and hot take one of those cans of air duster, turn upside down and concentrate the ice cold air duster on the screw only. It’ll come out.

 

[centershot]

I can try that Wingnut. I am afraid that heating the gun will draw out the temper of the springs.

 

[SBS]

With the grips off, you should be able to remove the mainspring, whether it be a J, K, L or N frame. The only other spring in that area would be the bolt plunger spring, which is very small and fairly common and not a big deal to replace. The other springs (rebound and cylinder stop) are too far away to be affected. Even a complete set of springs is not expensive, if needed.

 

[centershot]

Success!! After two weeks of soaking, I used the drill press method. A lady at homestead firearms showed this trick to me. Chuck the correct size screw driver bit in the drill press. Put constant pressure on the screw to be removed and turn the chuck by hand. On very large screws she uses a pipe wrench on the chuck. Now you can see in the pictures the gum that was on the screw.

 

[1911nut]

Good Job!

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[AlNyhus]

Great! -Al

 

[DGP4]

That's a very clever solution!! I'll have to remember that Thanks for posting the solution

 

[hpshooter]

Success!! After two weeks of soaking, I used the drill press method. A lady at homestead firearms showed this trick to me. Chuck the correct size screw driver bit in the drill press. Put constant pressure on the screw to be removed and turn the chuck by hand. On very large screws she uses a pipe wrench on the chuck. Now you can see in the pictures the gum that was on the screw.

Used that method myself, not on firearms, but would not put a pipe wrench on the chuck. I use either a proper sized punch in the chuck key hole or a hock spanner that fits the chuck body and the key hole.

My dad and granfather would bounce out of their graves if I put a pipe wernch on a chuck.

 

[centershot]

Used that method myself, not on firearms, but would not put a pipe wrench on the chuck. I use either a proper sized punch in the chuck key hole or a hock spanner that fits the chuck body and the key hole.

My dad and granfather would bounce out of their graves if I put a pipe wernch on a chuck.

If you could have seen her and her shop, you would understand.

 

[hpshooter]

If you could have seen her and her shop, you would understand.

Understand!