For future reference, and not telling you how to suck eggs but bolts such as these exposed to salt and elements will be the trickiest. Pre soak your bolts and threads when you have a job coming up. If you got it planned in for sat just go and give a wire brush and spray days before. I will get a wire wheel on the bolt head and clean right back to maximise grip as you can't use a 6 point impact. When it comes to undoing heat etc helps but to get mine off I needed a socket on breaker then a scaffolding pole on the end of that. Get leverage rather than hacking at it and use physics to your advantage. I don't know what you would categorise as a lemon. If only the issues ended at calipers haha. Good luck
Si Click
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Just goes to your cart. Assuming the link is to the Irwin 5 piece set, I was put off by the fact that the largest hex size is 16mm. The cheap 10 piece set goes to 19mm.
Money bags, would love to buy snap on but funds are low
Its not that matey ive bought loads of cheaper tools over the years, when the tool doesn't do the job
its intended for & you smash yourself in the face when it fails then there is no compromise for me.
Firstly you've wasted your hard earned cash on cr@p gear plus your time & you need to go an buy
a quality tool when you in your head..... you know that's what you should have done from the start lol
urena
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heat it up ffs
Fhit-Slicker
Member
UPDATE....................................Woohooooooooooooooooooo both osf and nsf discs and pads sorted, the 5 piece irwin extractors did the trick on the caliper bolt 
still needing an nsf caliper as all but 1 pistons are very tight, the osf was so easy it was unreal, every bolt came of so easy, guessing because the caliper had been replaced not so long ago, the only thing that side needs is a wheel bearing as the inner bearing is quite crunchie but will do for now .
Next weekend I plan to tackle the back discs and pads expecting major crap from those cause they look like the originals there that knackered and crusty , fingers crossed its nice and easy so thanks for all your help folks and links etc to the tools that worked very well
still needing an nsf caliper as all but 1 pistons are very tight, the osf was so easy it was unreal, every bolt came of so easy, guessing because the caliper had been replaced not so long ago, the only thing that side needs is a wheel bearing as the inner bearing is quite crunchie but will do for now .Next weekend I plan to tackle the back discs and pads
expecting major crap from those cause they look like the originals there that knackered and crusty , fingers crossed its nice and easy so thanks for all your help folks and links etc to the tools that worked very well
Fhit-Slicker
Member
I understand totally where your coming from, I'm a tool snob myself, never liked cheap ****e as like you say they do fail, I always try to buy good quality, I would rather buy quality used from boot sales (got a lot of britool bits in the past) than cheap new
Fhit-Slicker
Member
oh bugger, soz
Sound advice is that, will deffo do that next time
Yes it was and managed to get the set from homebase in town, saved me a 40 mile round trip
paid a bit extra but worth it I did several times
neilly
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You can get Irwin " expansion" sets that got to 19mm, what cheap 10 pce set are you mentioning?
Cheers
Si Click
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The EBay one I refer to in Post 14. 9mm to 19mm in 10 pieces, held in foam in a smart aluminium box for just under £12. I bought a set to have in my portable tool kit and have used it a few times with great success. The biggest problem is removing the nut from the extractor without a vice.
I understand totally where your coming from, I'm a tool snob myself, never liked cheap ****e as like you say they do fail, I always try to buy good quality, I would rather buy quality used from boot sales (got a lot of britool bits in the past) than cheap new
Tool snob lol
neilly
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Nice, I have the Irwin exp set #2, 8,10,13,16& 19mm, have ordered the cheap ones to use in emergencies and keep in the 90. Thanks
Cheers
Fhit-Slicker
Member
oh yes
I got a shinny new replacement breaker today bar off snap on cause I snapped it
Fhit-Slicker
Member
I got a shinny new replacement breaker today bar off snap on cause I snapped it
Now your showing off
That's the beauty of Snap-on, and its ok if your in the trade where the Snap-on man turns up every week showing all his bling in his van, sadly I'm not, mind you that's not a bad thing as I already have one mortgage
Now your showing off
Haha aye I was showing when I managed to put myself on my arse when I broke the bar much to the
amusement of the lads I was working with......
I used to be in the motor trade, now I do boats the lads all buy snap on so he's here most weeks &
with the guarantee its hard to beat, walking into the shinny tool van with all the lights on puts you in a
trance so youl pick something lol
Ironstrike
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It is a bit of a bodge job but it worked for me recently, if the the 13 star head bolt is wrung try hammering on a 12mm and use a breaker bar if there is enough room.
