HELP! Broke body bolt

[MSFTMatt]

This thread has gone totally off the rails but I LOVE IT!! I appreciate everyone’s participation! Those videos are awesome! This is a what I dig about this forum, shared knowledge. Thanks y’all!!!!

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[Maximus Gladius]

Would this work?

 

[Cburd61]

Just a PSA, if you have a medical implanted electronic device like a pacemaker or a combo pacemaker/ICD, you want to avoid the induction coil heating tools due to the electromagnetic interference they generate.

When I first started working at BMW, we had a guy that, every time he walked by one of the robots, (we only had 2 at the time, now there’s about 80), he would have palpitations and have to rest for an hour or so. He went to the heart specialist to see what was going on. Found out he had a pacemaker put in when he was about 3, to correct a condition that he eventually grew out of. They never took it out. The electromagnetic pulses from the robot were triggering it.

 

[Rusty PW]

It conducts electricity, thus, it can generate a magnetic field around itself.
Even aluminum wiring going to your home carries a magnetic field around it.

Sorry Bill. I had to call you out. Because I "KNEW" you would post something to back it up and it would be interesting.

 

[Rusty PW]

This thread has gone totally off the rails but I LOVE IT!! I appreciate everyone’s participation! Those videos are awesome! This is a what I dig about this forum, shared knowledge. Thanks y’all!!!!

 

[Rusty PW]

Correct and that is pretty much with any modern medical electronic implant device. They are shielded pretty well but there is still a emitter and receiver function of the devices that are susceptible to EMI interference in the right conditions.

When I got my device some years ago, I had to go through a audit questionnaire of my working history and daily access to RF type energy. Working in Avionics Engineering design and manufacturing, I have to watch what environments I am in. People in trades that use either direct energy devices and unshielded EMI environments like plasma cutting, arc welding and use of tools like the already mentioned induction coil heaters have to take even more precautions or in some cases, find another trade.

My wife has Parkinson's. She has 2 deep brain stimulators. One on each side. We can adjust them with a cell phone and a device held on her skin. Under her skin on the left side of her chest is the control devise. We can make an adjust when the tremors get worse. Don't have to go to the doctor to do it.

Forgot to add to this. There is a bunch of electrical things that she can't get close to anymore.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Sorry Bill. I had to call you out. Because I "KNEW" you would post something to back it up and it would be interesting.

Ya know, knowing your background, your work history, etc. - DUH, I should have never even given it a thought. You know more about that stuff than I'll ever absorb in my remaining years.

My wife has Parkinson's. She has 2 deep brain stimulators. One on each side. We can adjust them with a cell phone and a device held on her skin. Under her skin on the left side of her chest is the control devise. We can make an adjust when the tremors get worse. Don't have to go to the doctor to do it.

Interesting as that's the option my neurologist gives me for my "essential tremors" (I can't see how they are essential, I could live without them).
He said I'm on as high a dose of drugs as he'll give - and other drugs would give risky side effects for my heart. He said next step is a pair of electrodes connected under the skin to some battery pack and thingy that would send pulses down the electrodes planted in the brain.
He scared the @#$ out of me - steel rods in the brain? And if they miss?
I'd want to talk to someone who has personal experience before I'd ever............
but then, now this thread is not only off the rails, it's in the ocean.

 

[NVjeff]

Sorry Bill. I had to call you out. Because I "KNEW" you would post something to back it up and it would be interesting.

I'm glad you said something, I was wondering about magnetic aluminum.
An electro-magnet makes perfect sense and is something I had never considered.

 

[Rusty PW]

Ya know, knowing your background, your work history, etc. - DUH, I should have never even given it a thought. You know more about that stuff than I'll ever absorb in my remaining years.



Interesting as that's the option my neurologist gives me for my "essential tremors" (I can't see how they are essential, I could live without them).
He said I'm on as high a dose of drugs as he'll give - and other drugs would give risky side effects for my heart. He said next step is a pair of electrodes connected under the skin to some battery pack and thingy that would send pulses down the electrodes planted in the brain.
He scared the @#$ out of me - steel rods in the brain? And if they miss?
I'd want to talk to someone who has personal experience before I'd ever............
but then, now this thread is not only off the rails, it's in the ocean.

To have the probes implanted. It's a 5 step process.
1st step to have 4 tiny screws put into your skull. One at each corner. This is like surveyor's markers for the next step.
2nd step a week later. Complete brain scan. They are mapping your brain. Using this mapping. They will make a skull cap to fit your head. This is the drill jig to accurately drill into your skull.
3rd step is about 2 week from the 2nd step. Need time to make the skull cap. They will put you asleep. place the cap on your head. Drill the holes in your skull. Place the probes into your brain. Then they wake you up. Test the probes and make adjust on the depth of the probes. Put you back asleep. The wires for the probes are not hooked up at this time. They are bunched up under your skin.
4th step is a week later were they connect the wires to the control devise. They run the wires under the skin. Behind your ear, down to your chest, where they have implanted the control devise. They will make some small adjustments to control the tremors.
5th, you go back in to the doctor's office a couple of weeks later. This is where they fine out what your upper limits are. There is a shit load of adjustments. They find out just how much your can stand then back it down enough to control the tremors.

The wifey has been happy with the results. At first, she wasn't. Bunch of second thoughts about having it done. But she is glad that she had it done.

 

[Rusty PW]

I'm glad you said something, I was wondering about magnetic aluminum.
An electro-magnet makes perfect sense and is something I had never considered.

You can take any type of metal, wrap a few wraps of wire around it and turn it into a coil. When I worked at Elliott. We did mag particle testing to check for cracks in shafts. The coil was some heavy gage welding cable made into a few loops. Spray the area of the shaft you wanted to check with a liquid dye. Sprinkle some extra fine iron particles on the area. Then put your looped welding cable around the area and energize. If there is a crack. No matter how small. The iron particles would line up with the crack.


The one video where they were splitting the pop cans into two. I wanted to see what would happen with an unopened pop can.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

You can take any type of metal, wrap a few wraps of wire around it and turn it into a coil. When I worked at Elliott. We did mag particle testing to check for cracks in shafts. The coil was some heavy gage welding cable made into a few loops. Spray the area of the shaft you wanted to check with a liquid dye. Sprinkle some extra fine iron particles on the area. Then put your looped welding cable around the area and energize. If there is a crack. No matter how small. The iron particles would line up with the crack.


The one video where they were splitting the pop cans into two. I wanted to see what would happen with an unopened pop can.

It's a process similar to checking for cracks in cylinder heads and so on - "magnaflux". The iron filings or powder will line up at the crack like they'd line up for the poles of a magnet.

 

[Rusty PW]

It's a process similar to checking for cracks in cylinder heads and so on - "magnaflux". The iron filings or powder will line up at the crack like they'd line up for the poles of a magnet.

Same process. We just called it mag particle.

 

[MSFTMatt]

UPDATE: no good news. Local shop had my truck all day without success. They tried lifting the cab a little but that said there wasn’t enough bolt sticking out to grab on to. Said they’d need to lift the whole cab about 2 feet.
So now what? These are going to be the most expensive rock sliders of all time.

 

[MSFTMatt]

They did not try drilling/tapping tho

 

[Cburd61]

They did not try drilling/tapping tho

Second thing I would have tried. Drilling out the bolt with the proper tap size and re tapping it. First thing would have been to try to center punch it, and drill it out with a left hand bit. Sometimes the bit will grab and back it out.

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