Help with removal of rusty Bolts/Screws

[KATYBELLE]

Hello All!! Thanks in advance!!

What is the best way to remove the rusted bolts/screws from the C channel? I have a multi tool but the blades don't seem to work well to cut the bolts off from above. Is grinding them off from under the BP the best way?

[easyride]

I use a 4" angle grinder with a cutting wheel in it. Dave Just don`t start a fire!!!

[Mexray]

A HD Saws-all should cut right through em' if you use the proper metal cutting blades...

[Wabbiteer]

I plunge cut with thinnest (0.8mm?) high speed cutting wheel down the bolt shank to separate a 40-50% chunk off the nut off and then twist it off with vice-grip pliers...

[utee94]

For the ones that come up from the bottom and have the nut on the top, grab a pair of vice grips and bend the bolt shaft back and forth a couple of times. They'll often just snap right off. For the ones that go topside-down, you'll need access to the under side to do that.

[KATYBELLE]

Thanks for all of your input! Since I have the tools for all of these methods, I'll give them all a try and see which one works best! Doing the full monte on my '71 Globtrotter and while it is challenging, nothing has come too easy in this refurbishment......

[noreen&sal]

Dont forget eye protection. Sal.

[wasagachris]

Originally Posted by utee94

For the ones that come up from the bottom and have the nut on the top, grab a pair of vice grips and bend the bolt shaft back and forth a couple of times. They'll often just snap right off. For the ones that go topside-down, you'll need access to the under side to do that.

katy I agree with utee94 and Wabiteer. The fastest and easiest way is to snap them off with vice grips. I tried several methods and then just ended up using the vice grips and was done in no time at all.

[KATYBELLE]

I think that will work fairly well, but there are several self tapping wood screws that are so rusted that my drill phillips drill head cannot get a grip to unscrew them. Thus, i thought the multi tool could get in between the wood and the c channel to cut it loose.

[wasagachris]

Katy for those little wood screws just grind the heads off them or if you want to go to the trouble of removing them grind a notch in them and remove them by hand with a regular slotted screwdriver.

[KATYBELLE]

DUH!!! I am such an idiot! That is a great idea...it is so simple it is brilliant. Thanks Wasagachris.

[Splitrock]

I just cut the screw heads off with a sharp Stanley wood chisel. The bolts, I cut off with a metal cutting blade in a Sawzall.