Seized bolt HELP

Lungs94
Lungs94 Posts: 160
edited May 2015 in MTB workshop & tech
I just bought a Giant STP for spares & repairs for £15, it has Reba SL on it! however I cant take off the stem as the bolts are rounded off & seized what can I do to get it off?
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  • Chunkers1980
    Chunkers1980 Posts: 8,035
    Drill it out
  • bob6397
    bob6397 Posts: 218
    Chunkers1980 wrote:
    Drill it out

    +1. Carefully... Use a drill bit the same size as the thread of the bolt, not the size of the head of the bolt - unless you have no further use for the stem.. :)
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  • Lungs94
    Lungs94 Posts: 160
    Thanks, I ended up having to use a saw to cut the bolt in half took 2 hours
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  • taffygriffiths
    taffygriffiths Posts: 186
    In the future, use a drill just marginally bigger than the thread.

    As soon as you drill through the head, whats left of the head will spin and come off, removing all the tension, and leaving just the threaded shank left in the body.

    they should just unwind then.

    Get it in work when undoing flanges of numerous bolts. people take out 55, and the 56th has all the tension on it and people then round the heads (like idiots). pop the head and bobs your uncle.
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    What? So what you are saying is that the head stores tension? Different insight from mine.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • JackPozzi
    JackPozzi Posts: 1,191
    Also for future reference, sometimes with a rounded allen bolt it's possible to hammer a torx bit which will grip enough to undo the bolt.
  • Lungs94
    Lungs94 Posts: 160
    Thanks for suggestion peeps, but I already tried; drilling, heating & wedging a bigger allen key but it was rounded to literally a circle & looked like it was super super glued & welded in there lol, I had no choice but to cut it
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    If the bolt was that bad, hopefully the forks were looked after better.
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  • JodyP
    JodyP Posts: 193
    FishFish wrote:
    What? So what you are saying is that the head stores tension? Different insight from mine.

    I'm intrigued as to what your insight is. How else can a bolt work?
  • taffygriffiths
    taffygriffiths Posts: 186
    JodyP wrote:
    FishFish wrote:
    What? So what you are saying is that the head stores tension? Different insight from mine.

    I'm intrigued as to what your insight is. How else can a bolt work?

    it must be magic!
  • rockmonkeysc
    rockmonkeysc Posts: 14,774
    JodyP wrote:
    FishFish wrote:
    What? So what you are saying is that the head stores tension? Different insight from mine.

    I'm intrigued as to what your insight is. How else can a bolt work?

    Wizardry obviously.
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