Did you need to heat the casing?

Thank you for sharing what works.

--
Christopher A. Young
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"Christopher Tidy" wrote in
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You know when you want to extract a short, unbroken stud
from a casting
without damaging it, but it's stuck tight? Well I never
found a good
way. But I had an idea this afternoon. I took a hex nut, cut
a radial
slit through the nut, screwed it onto the stud, and squeezed
it tight in
a mole wrench (i.e., vise grips). So it worked a bit like a
collet. It
turned the stud out easily. Here's a pictu
http://www.mythic-beasts.com/~cdt22/stud_extractor.jpg

No doubt some dude in Detroit had the same idea about 80
years ago, but
I was pleased with it :-).

Chris