Rounded off nut

xvwannabe · Derestricted Danger Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Karma :

Help guys,just doing some work on my wife's scoot an came to take the exhaust off as it's as rotten as a peach,one of the nuts on the downpipe came off as good as gold but the other is well rounded so obviously a spanner or socket is a no go,can't even get in with a junior hacksaw or a nut splitter,anybody got any suggestions please short of a gallon of petrol an torching the bloody thing, it's doing my head in. Mad

---- · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Karma :

Smack a slightly smaller socket onto it.....

Ichy · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Karma :

Or weld an old spanner onto it.
File it down to the next size.
Footprint wrench or similar.

Buy a new cylinder!

stirlinggaz · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Karma :

Hi,
dremel a slot in it,
then use impact driver with slot head bit.
cheers,
GAZ

b-f-c · Traffic Copper Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Karma :

Use a 6 faced socket rather than one of these multi face ones (12 I think) so that it grips the nut on the flat face not the corners.

Or if there's enough spare thread on the stud - use 2 nuts on the thread and tighten them up to one another to create a lock nut and try and undo the complete stud rather than the nut.

ms51ves3 · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Karma :

Mole grips.

garyd · Brolly Dolly Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Karma :

Buy IRWIN sockets for this purpose ,they have a "spiral"in them that just bites harder into the nut the more you turn ,never failed Thumbs Up

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