How to remove a glued-in weight bolt

spliced

spliced

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Want to figure out the best way to do this without damaging the butt. The bolt has an allen head with a hole in the center for a bumper screw. I'm guessing it's 3/8x16 and about 4" long. Doing this at home without a lathe. Any suggestions? I have a torch but dont know how I could heat the screw without burning the butt.

Thanks for any help! By the way this is a cheap house cue i'm fixing up for fun so not looking to send it away
 
spliced said:
Want to figure out the best way to do this without damaging the butt. The bolt has an allen head with a hole in the center for a bumper screw. I'm guessing it's 3/8x16 and about 4" long. Doing this at home without a lathe. Any suggestions? I have a torch but dont know how I could heat the screw without burning the butt.

Thanks for any help! By the way this is a cheap house cue i'm fixing up for fun so not looking to send it away
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I would go and get a soldering iron and hold it on the bolt head until it
Heats up the screw ...and then try and loosen it.
 
I'd go with the soldering iron as well. You could also put an Allen wrench in the bolt and heat the wrench with the torch. Then use Vice Grips to turn the wrench.
 
weight bolt

I would go to the nearest cue repair or custom cuemaker :)


Mario
 
Get a longer allen wrench, insert the base into a vise, then set the cue on allen wrench, and apply a torch JUST to the lower end of the allen wrench, as heat rises...keep an eye on the butt so it doesn't burn, I wrap a plumber's heat blanket around it that you can get at Home depot. After a good 45 seconds or more after the area on the allen wrench turns cherry red, put the torch down count to 30, and try to unscrew the bolt, it may take repeating a few times but should work. The solder iron method, unless it's about a 400 watt gun type, and the epoxy is at the screwhead, you'll be there until Christmas trying.
Don't be surprised if the weight bolt doesn't budge even with this method....some of these house cues with these bolts, the bolt maybe about 7 inches long and glued at the bottom of the hole. Plus I've also have seen them rust in place too... was really surprised with that one.
Dave
 
machinist with real good metal drill bits.
a very small metal drill bit would get right into the screw hole at back of bolt.
center the bit, drill, and repeat with bit size increase until the bolt disappears.
rethread wood to accept new bolt.

that's the way i would do it, you need really good bits.
 
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