I've grown quite weary...but I'll tell you of a place that existed looonng ago. A place where you could have walked in with that, tossed it on the counter and a new one would be given to you immediately. It was called Sears. Tears
I tried that once. A 3/8 flexible ratchet where the pawls had gotten worn. Took it in, and the guy pulled a box out from under the counter, I had never seen tools so abused. Looked like a giant dog had chewed them. Kept the one I had.
Every time I swapped one out they would grab the exact same item, brand new off the shelf. If they didn't have it they couldn't warranty it at that time. I've had the same experience with Ace and AutoZone more recently.
At one point they had rebuild kits for ratchets available. That was before I tried to get a round head 1/4 ratchet fixed, and didn't want it replaced with the pear head version (because I already had one of those and I wanted one of each). That busted ratchet is still in a drawer somewhere
Ratchet had a rebuild kit and the salesmen could service them. Usually though they just give you a new one. Some items where not lifetime guarantee for warranty.
Extensions and size adapter being such items, a lot stores would still swap it out but really they weren't supposed too.
I'll never forget the last time I took my craftsman tape measure in and was told they stopped making them and my only option was a fat max and I would no longer have lifetime replacements.
Yeah, I'll never forgive the greedy SOBs that took away SEARs, JoANNs is gone now, big lots died, radio shack and circuit city no more. May this places RIP.
Sears still hurts the most, I grew up in Sears and family that worked for Sears. It's a shame
I used to work for Sears. We had a guy that would repair the broken ratchets, for some reason we weren't allowed to exchange them for new ones - but most of the time we would anyways, because the refurbished ones broke in a day anyway.
All the other hand tools came right off the shelf for an exchange.
Nope. They didnt swap ratchets unless the handke was bent. For a ratchet they would give you the repair kit with the innards of the ratchet. But they NEVER gave you a used tool.
Technically if they don’t have the same exact part number they will tell you to call a hotline. It sucks. Sometimes you find a casual cashier and they will just exchange it anyway.
Kobalt has a lifetime warranty but I’ve bought and broken two 90 tooth tilting head 3/8” drive ratchets in the last 2 days. Absolute garbage!
Edit to say OP’s adapter technically isn’t broken so they may not replace it anyway. It’s the ratchet/extension’ fault here.
I know people have been saying things have been getting worse but products we buy and services have taken a deep decline. Quality is crap and very few things are actually decent now. In fact it's more surprising when it is compared to when it's not quality. Everything has gone through a lot of enshitification.
Yeah but names that used to be synonymous with quality are now just riding on their old reputation or just useless now. They don't offer the same warranties and if they do you have to fight to get them to honor it.
They get bought by private equity companies who make them “more profitable” in the short-term by cutting quality. In the long-term, people vote with their wallets and buy from a better brand.
In inflation adjusted dollars I think a modern tool is as good or better than it was 30 years ago. But with a few exceptions, you probably can’t buy it from the same brand. A modern craftsman tool is pretty shit quality compared to what they sold 30 years ago, but they also cost much less (adjusted for inflation). The Craftsman ratchet from 30 years ago would cost as much as one from Mac today.
Who's pension fund? They don't give those anymore. It's for those C execs bonuses and severance when they run the brand into the ground with their cost cutting and markups. Stake holders happy for a year and then they cry they are laying money.
They still exist, though in smaller numbers than they used to. The replacement, individual retirement accounts like Roths and 401ks, have the same effect. You have some sort of money manager who operates the fund that many people invest into for their IRA. That money manager has a lot of sway with corporate boards, who then manage the c-suites. They incentivize the c-suite to make certain profit targets with bonuses based on their earnings performance. That’s why they cut stuff to the bone.
My local ACE refused to warranty my ratchet without the original receipt. I asked them if they really expected me to have a receipt from the mid 70’s, and they wouldn’t budge.
In my experience there are lots of questions asked and they aren’t willing to work with you much if at all when there isn’t an EXACT replacement in store. I’m lucky enough to live in a place with two Lowe’s within driving distance, so I’ll note my mistakes of what I said or whatever, then drive to the other Lowe’s and play it better.
I was an Operations Manager at Sears for several years, and our frustration with the ongoing warranty changes were much, much higher than yours, trust me.
You had to spend an hour of your day dealing with the shit, we had multiple hours, for multiple days.
I get it, Lowe's and Home Depot were stealing our customers. We were losing money based on legacy programs. But everything was doing okay until Fast Eddy showed up, gutted the company, sold off all of the parts that made it unique, then filed for bankruptcy as soon as it was no longer financially viable.
Remember when Walmart had their 100% money back guarantee? That shit didn't last either. It wasn't just about the people who abused the system though, believe it or not there weren't that many. It was all about the corporate stooges sitting at a screen and staring at numbers all day. If they could figure out how to increase quarterly profits by a percentage point, they implemented it and customers be damned.
In the meantime, those of us in store management had the unfortunate job of explaining to our customers and employees the latest in a long line of corporate decisions.
I loved the tool department at Sears, everything else not so much. Too much hard sell in appliances and worse for extended warranties. But damn those hand tools were GOOD!
Employees who fell behind in those warranty sales were fired for performance. It wasn't about the money to them, it was the desperate need to keep earning for their own families.
My Ace Hardware that I work at still honors the lifetime warranty this way.
No proof of purchase required. You walk in, go to the shelf, grab the same item, walk to the counter, say "I'd like a warranty exchange please", we process it as an exchange for defective, take the socket/ratchet/whatever off the plastic packaging, put the old one on it, and give you the new one.
I also want to add that you don't need the exact same model number: if its an older discontinued hand tool, you can get the modern equivalent as the warranty replacement.
Generally when you bend metal it actually gets harder. Thats called work hardening or cold working, it increases hardness but also makes the metal more brittle. It does this because the hardness of the metal increases proportionaly with the density of dislocations/defects in the crystalline structure, and working the metal increases the number of those defects.
I will never be defeated by something without a brain. If you don't have an extractor bit, drill a small hole and sink a screw into it. Pop it out with a claw hammer
Put it in the vise facing up. Put a fender washer on the top. Weld a piece of steel rod or weld the inside of the nut to the broken off material through the inside of the fender washer. Get a pair of pliers and yoink it out. Piece of cake.
OP shared it with us first. Also, the Bible tells us this: just look for the biggest benefactors. Usually it's just trophy wives pretending to be abducted by others.
You been hanging out with these white dudes too much. You need to put some more bass into it, like Look Man, i Ain't fallin' for no Banana in my Tail pipe!
Before you heat up the outside place it in the freezer overnight. Place it in something that won't burn with the female side down (this will help block the heat getting to the stuck piece). Heat using a heat gun or torch on high directing at the thin wall holding the stuck part in. I have to pull arbors out of diamond dressing rolls alot and it isn't fun that the only reason I know this.
Throw it at the ground with all your might against the road, make sure theres no cars nearby, and watch it bounce 20 ft into the air, after a couple of these it will be as good as new.
No Sears warranty would give you one unless the ratchet that broke inside of it is a Craftsman as well. I started my apprenticeship with Craftsman Tools 50+ years ago.
But to answer your question, throwing it on a concrete floor is actually a valid choice. Drilling a hole in that might be tough as it is tool steel. Putting it in a vise and using pin punch and hammer in the opposite direction of the twist might break it free.
Put it in a vice securely. Use a metal punch on one of the corners of the extender. You are trying to realign it. A couple of taps with a hammer should sort that. Then probably tweezers should be able to pull it out.
Put in a warranty claim with craftsman on their site and theyll send you a new one. Theyll ask for a pic. Then you take this same one to Lowes and swap it today and youll have one for today, and the other comes in the mail. Youll have 2.
Ah yes. There's math, girl math, guy math, then there's TOOL MATH.
I just spent 200 on a circular saw/drill/oscillating tool/ hammer drill/sawsall/ flashlight combo. I needed the oscillating tool which was 80. But i saw that it was a free gift if I bought the circular saw (i just bought my first house so im gonna need the saw for renovations) and that was 150. But when I got to the store they had the big combo and im like "eh. What's 50 more bucks?!"
There’s a lot of very complicated advice here. The simplest method is the just throw it at the ground (concrete or other hard unyielding material). Try to aim for bottom with the broken bit. Might come out on the first throw, might be the dozenth, but inertia is a hell of a force and will get that out.
You need a drill. Everyone needs a drill. Go get one, learn a new skill.
That being said. Got a vice? Put it in there, take a punch and hammer (a nail will work for the punch) try to force the piece back the other direction till it’s loose. Stick something thin (pointy razor blades) on opposite sides and pry the piece out
Second, get an old Burger King crown and turn this into a sword and stone challenge for friends who visit your shop. If anyone can extract the broken bit, put the crown on them for the day and buy them a beer/coffee/whatever.
If you have not somehow friction welded them together.
Vice if you have it and needle nose to see if you can get anything good out of it. I mean, rotate clock wise, wiggle, pull etc.
If that does not work, you can always try the bearing removal trick of shoving grease in the available openings followed by bread and tapping it down. The grease should fill the very little open space at the back and the bread will act as a seal so it's forced deeper in. The pressure should start to push the extension tip out.
If the extension was a craftsman, take both to Lowes and try to get them to lifetime it. Quality won't be the same if this is old stock.
Weld a nut to ot and yank it out with molegrips 👌 weld through the centre of the nut or even better use a thick penny washer thats bigger diameter than the socket with small centre hole...it'll come out no problem 👌
insert into an extension. use the extension for a handle. holding the handle, lay it on an anvil or other thick steel surface. hit it, softly at first with the big hammer. roll it 90 degrees and hit it again. it shouldn’t take much to loosen it up.
I've extracted stuff like this for several of my coworkers with success. I use a welder, and a nut. Center the nut over the broken bit and carefully weld through the nut to the broken bit. Fill the nut with weld and let cool. Then grab the nut with pliers and it should come right out. Be very careful not to weld to the socket you're trying to save.
No easy way bro. You can put the bit in a vice and drill it out. It might take you 15 minutes. Or you can tell your wife your old one broke so now you need the new 150 piece kit. Its justifies you spending $120 on a new tool kit. This is guy math
You can drill it out in a drill press. Just use a drill slightly smaller than the opening, center it and peck it real slow and often. You'll likely ruin a drill or 2 but it can be done. You can also use a ball end mill the same way.
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Launch it at the ground
I threw it at the ground!
My dad's not a phone.
Duhhh!
You can't buy me hot dog man!
Happy birthday to the ground!!!!!
Throw the rest of the adapter tooooo
Welcome to the real world jackass!
I ain't a part of yo system! Maaaaaan!
Pump your garbage in another man’s veins!
Tazin' on my butthole, over and over!!
Do you think I’m stupid?
Whatchu think I'm stupid?!?
And that’s why you can’t trust THE SYSTEM
And they tased me in my butthole.
Do you have tee pee for my bunghole?
Im not gonna be part of your system.
Happy birthday to the ground!
I threw the rest of the cake too!
Welcome to the real world, jackass!
Full yeet only answer.
I believe the correct term is YEET
Lube it first then launch it
Happy birthday to the ground!
It is twisted into a mechanical weld so throwing it will never work.
This is the way
I've grown quite weary...but I'll tell you of a place that existed looonng ago. A place where you could have walked in with that, tossed it on the counter and a new one would be given to you immediately. It was called Sears. Tears
I miss being able to do this. I used to find broken Craftsman tools at work and bring them in for replacement.
I tried that once. A 3/8 flexible ratchet where the pawls had gotten worn. Took it in, and the guy pulled a box out from under the counter, I had never seen tools so abused. Looked like a giant dog had chewed them. Kept the one I had.
Every time I swapped one out they would grab the exact same item, brand new off the shelf. If they didn't have it they couldn't warranty it at that time. I've had the same experience with Ace and AutoZone more recently.
At one point they had rebuild kits for ratchets available. That was before I tried to get a round head 1/4 ratchet fixed, and didn't want it replaced with the pear head version (because I already had one of those and I wanted one of each). That busted ratchet is still in a drawer somewhere
They were going to trade you used tools, or was that the box from broken ones? Never heard of the latter happening.
Yes, they told me to pick from the box. I assume the major problem was broken pawls, so they had "refurbished" them.
Ratchet had a rebuild kit and the salesmen could service them. Usually though they just give you a new one. Some items where not lifetime guarantee for warranty.
Extensions and size adapter being such items, a lot stores would still swap it out but really they weren't supposed too.
I'll never forget the last time I took my craftsman tape measure in and was told they stopped making them and my only option was a fat max and I would no longer have lifetime replacements.
Yeah, I'll never forgive the greedy SOBs that took away SEARs, JoANNs is gone now, big lots died, radio shack and circuit city no more. May this places RIP.
Sears still hurts the most, I grew up in Sears and family that worked for Sears. It's a shame
I used to work for Sears. We had a guy that would repair the broken ratchets, for some reason we weren't allowed to exchange them for new ones - but most of the time we would anyways, because the refurbished ones broke in a day anyway.
All the other hand tools came right off the shelf for an exchange.
Nope. They didnt swap ratchets unless the handke was bent. For a ratchet they would give you the repair kit with the innards of the ratchet. But they NEVER gave you a used tool.
Take them to Lowes they still honor craftdman warranty.
You can still get new Craftsman tools under warranty at Lowe’s, no questions asked. However, the quality is not the same as the old made in US stuff.
Technically if they don’t have the same exact part number they will tell you to call a hotline. It sucks. Sometimes you find a casual cashier and they will just exchange it anyway.
Kobalt has a lifetime warranty but I’ve bought and broken two 90 tooth tilting head 3/8” drive ratchets in the last 2 days. Absolute garbage!
Edit to say OP’s adapter technically isn’t broken so they may not replace it anyway. It’s the ratchet/extension’ fault here.
I know people have been saying things have been getting worse but products we buy and services have taken a deep decline. Quality is crap and very few things are actually decent now. In fact it's more surprising when it is compared to when it's not quality. Everything has gone through a lot of enshitification.
I think you could also argue you can get decent tools for less than you used to, including inflation, maybe even not including inflation.
A gearwrench ratchet set is good quality imo and is $100 on amazon. That would have been at least as much and likely less teeth in 1990.
Yeah but names that used to be synonymous with quality are now just riding on their old reputation or just useless now. They don't offer the same warranties and if they do you have to fight to get them to honor it.
They get bought by private equity companies who make them “more profitable” in the short-term by cutting quality. In the long-term, people vote with their wallets and buy from a better brand.
In inflation adjusted dollars I think a modern tool is as good or better than it was 30 years ago. But with a few exceptions, you probably can’t buy it from the same brand. A modern craftsman tool is pretty shit quality compared to what they sold 30 years ago, but they also cost much less (adjusted for inflation). The Craftsman ratchet from 30 years ago would cost as much as one from Mac today.
The margin on everything must continually go up. We gotta pay retirement and pension funds somehow 🤷♂️
Who's pension fund? They don't give those anymore. It's for those C execs bonuses and severance when they run the brand into the ground with their cost cutting and markups. Stake holders happy for a year and then they cry they are laying money.
They still exist, though in smaller numbers than they used to. The replacement, individual retirement accounts like Roths and 401ks, have the same effect. You have some sort of money manager who operates the fund that many people invest into for their IRA. That money manager has a lot of sway with corporate boards, who then manage the c-suites. They incentivize the c-suite to make certain profit targets with bonuses based on their earnings performance. That’s why they cut stuff to the bone.
Of course you also have private equity firms.
Jeez thats worse than what id expect from Pittsburgh and or their pro line
Your local ACE Hardware will too.
My local ACE refused to warranty my ratchet without the original receipt. I asked them if they really expected me to have a receipt from the mid 70’s, and they wouldn’t budge.
In my experience there are lots of questions asked and they aren’t willing to work with you much if at all when there isn’t an EXACT replacement in store. I’m lucky enough to live in a place with two Lowe’s within driving distance, so I’ll note my mistakes of what I said or whatever, then drive to the other Lowe’s and play it better.
I was an Operations Manager at Sears for several years, and our frustration with the ongoing warranty changes were much, much higher than yours, trust me.
You had to spend an hour of your day dealing with the shit, we had multiple hours, for multiple days.
I get it, Lowe's and Home Depot were stealing our customers. We were losing money based on legacy programs. But everything was doing okay until Fast Eddy showed up, gutted the company, sold off all of the parts that made it unique, then filed for bankruptcy as soon as it was no longer financially viable.
Remember when Walmart had their 100% money back guarantee? That shit didn't last either. It wasn't just about the people who abused the system though, believe it or not there weren't that many. It was all about the corporate stooges sitting at a screen and staring at numbers all day. If they could figure out how to increase quarterly profits by a percentage point, they implemented it and customers be damned.
In the meantime, those of us in store management had the unfortunate job of explaining to our customers and employees the latest in a long line of corporate decisions.
I loved the tool department at Sears, everything else not so much. Too much hard sell in appliances and worse for extended warranties. But damn those hand tools were GOOD!
Employees who fell behind in those warranty sales were fired for performance. It wasn't about the money to them, it was the desperate need to keep earning for their own families.
My Ace Hardware that I work at still honors the lifetime warranty this way.
No proof of purchase required. You walk in, go to the shelf, grab the same item, walk to the counter, say "I'd like a warranty exchange please", we process it as an exchange for defective, take the socket/ratchet/whatever off the plastic packaging, put the old one on it, and give you the new one.
We get credit for the broken items.
I also want to add that you don't need the exact same model number: if its an older discontinued hand tool, you can get the modern equivalent as the warranty replacement.
Tears for Sears
I'm really upset you made this joke four minutes before I did 😭
Honestly it was the perfect layup. I'd have been more surprised if nobody beat us to it.
So like harbor freight?
The ATF won't let us have sears.
That would be auto seers, that they won't let us have. In
Give me a coathanger, file and a court date and ill set you up. You too can shoot $180 a minute
LOL 🤣🤣🤣😆
Right?
Tears For Sears
Toss it and purchase another. With no drill you will spend more time that it's worth trying to fix it.
It’s hardened steel, and will not be easy to drill.
It doesn't look particularly hardened from the images.. Looks more like it's made from aluminum. Or chewing gum..
OP must surely be as strong as 5 oxen to have snapped that ratchet.
Or he used a very long pipe on the handle...
Not hard enough to not break though.
Odds are that it isn’t hardened. Even if it is, carbide or cobalt drills would make easy work of it.
Its Craftsman so they wont need to even purchase one. Lowes will exchange it. Even though it wasn't the piece that failed, they wont know any better.
Drill into it, screw an extractor bit into it, should be able to wiggle it out
"Drill into" hardened tool steel is no easy task.
With the right tools it is.
Now I just need those
Will it still be hard considering that it has lost its shape by getting twisted?
Generally when you bend metal it actually gets harder. Thats called work hardening or cold working, it increases hardness but also makes the metal more brittle. It does this because the hardness of the metal increases proportionaly with the density of dislocations/defects in the crystalline structure, and working the metal increases the number of those defects.
thats what she said
It probably wasn't hard to begin with, that fracture surface looks ductile
Carbide drill bits and patience
I think this is the best course of action, maybe apply some lube as well
I’d just buy a replacement for $6 or whatever.
Did someone just say sexy time?!?
Could you use a reverse twist drill bit and extractor? EDIT: normal direction drill bit is likely the right call here.
How much is it worth fiddling with compared to just buying a new one?
It’s probably easier to just buy a new one, but I also need to make things more complicated than they need to be
I relate.
I will never be defeated by something without a brain. If you don't have an extractor bit, drill a small hole and sink a screw into it. Pop it out with a claw hammer
This. I don’t take shit from inanimate objects.
Put it in the vise facing up. Put a fender washer on the top. Weld a piece of steel rod or weld the inside of the nut to the broken off material through the inside of the fender washer. Get a pair of pliers and yoink it out. Piece of cake.
Agreed, weld to it so you have something to pull with.
Lifetime warranty means you don't have to buy another one.
unless you lose it or borrow it to a loser
OP shared it with us first. Also, the Bible tells us this: just look for the biggest benefactors. Usually it's just trophy wives pretending to be abducted by others.
i relate to this. I'd waste hours trying to get it out, only to go out and get a new one. then i'd probably save the old one "just in case".
You don't want a left-handed drill bit here. This needs to turn slightly to the right to unbind it.
Its not threaded so normal direction drill will work just as well.
Looking at the direction of the jam, I think you’d use a standard drill bit.
Do you have a welder? You could weld something to it to pull it out. Alternatively you could throw it on the concrete a bunch and hope it comes out.
He doesn't have a drill. You think he has a welder?
Look man, I don't need a drill because I have a welder.
Look man, I ain't falling for the banana in the tail pipe!
You been hanging out with these white dudes too much. You need to put some more bass into it, like Look Man, i Ain't fallin' for no Banana in my Tail pipe!
Many upvotes for this, about lost my coffee!
Look man, your car was upside down when we got here. And for your grandma? Well she shouldn’t have been mouthing off at us.
Crap. I've been doing it wrong this whole time with all my fancy tools like a drill, a band saw, a welder and a grinder...
Hahahahaha
My dad and I got a tap out of a cylinder head like this.
jb weld. that will be stronger than the force it takes to remove that.
Be so careful its only a little bit 🤣
STOP! hammer time.
heat up the outside n chuck it at the ground
Before you heat up the outside place it in the freezer overnight. Place it in something that won't burn with the female side down (this will help block the heat getting to the stuck piece). Heat using a heat gun or torch on high directing at the thin wall holding the stuck part in. I have to pull arbors out of diamond dressing rolls alot and it isn't fun that the only reason I know this.
Then spike it on the ground!
With a situation like this I would just go get a new one .
Those sockets are expensive. He should buy a drill to get that piece out
Why it's just cheaper to buy a new fucking socket
Just put the inside in the freezer and the outside in the oven.
Throw it at the ground with all your might against the road, make sure theres no cars nearby, and watch it bounce 20 ft into the air, after a couple of these it will be as good as new.
Step two, accept that it is now hopelessly lost and go buy a new one anyhow.
Step 3 Dont do this at night
No Sears warranty would give you one unless the ratchet that broke inside of it is a Craftsman as well. I started my apprenticeship with Craftsman Tools 50+ years ago. But to answer your question, throwing it on a concrete floor is actually a valid choice. Drilling a hole in that might be tough as it is tool steel. Putting it in a vise and using pin punch and hammer in the opposite direction of the twist might break it free.
Put it in a vice securely. Use a metal punch on one of the corners of the extender. You are trying to realign it. A couple of taps with a hammer should sort that. Then probably tweezers should be able to pull it out.
Even properly aligned sockets are on there pretty good. I’d give up on extracting it.
This is the only quick, minimal tools needed, non overkill way to do it, and has been field tested by me for years
Give it to a tweaker and tell him you'll be back tomorrow with a rock. He'll get it out
Drill, baby drill
Throw it on the ground.
Is it imperative that the cylinder remain unharmed?
Goated reference
Well obviously the solution is to buy a very expensive obscure tool for this one specific task and then throw it in the back of the tool box forever
Put in a warranty claim with craftsman on their site and theyll send you a new one. Theyll ask for a pic. Then you take this same one to Lowes and swap it today and youll have one for today, and the other comes in the mail. Youll have 2.
Protect this man.
Throw it at the pavement a whole bunch of times until it pops loose. The correct way would be drilling but you dont have a drill.
This is the caveman suggestion I was looking for. I’ll try it out.
Just buy a new one. Not worth the trouble even with the proper tooling.
Just buy a new adapter
Is it worth getting a press drill for?
Ah yes. There's math, girl math, guy math, then there's TOOL MATH.
I just spent 200 on a circular saw/drill/oscillating tool/ hammer drill/sawsall/ flashlight combo. I needed the oscillating tool which was 80. But i saw that it was a free gift if I bought the circular saw (i just bought my first house so im gonna need the saw for renovations) and that was 150. But when I got to the store they had the big combo and im like "eh. What's 50 more bucks?!"
Just throw that 💩 on the floor until it pops lol...
That looks tightly wedged. Try dropping or throwing it from a hight point on to a hard ground
Drill out the top and pin punch it
Try throwing it in a freezer for a long while the banging it out
Just buy another one for5 bucks at your local Home Depot or auto zone
You’d waste more time (time is money) trying to get this out without tools than it’s worth, buy a new one
I used compressed air to get mines out
Weld a piece to it and pull
Apply heat. Then throw it
Suck it up and just Buy another one. Mr Gorilla. I wouldn't waste my time with that
There’s a lot of very complicated advice here. The simplest method is the just throw it at the ground (concrete or other hard unyielding material). Try to aim for bottom with the broken bit. Might come out on the first throw, might be the dozenth, but inertia is a hell of a force and will get that out.
You need a drill. Everyone needs a drill. Go get one, learn a new skill.
That being said. Got a vice? Put it in there, take a punch and hammer (a nail will work for the punch) try to force the piece back the other direction till it’s loose. Stick something thin (pointy razor blades) on opposite sides and pry the piece out
Take it to Lowe's or Ace Hardware for a warranty replacement, else contact craftsman for a replacement.
Yeet it onto the ground until it gives up the goods
Sure, but a new one is faster and easier
First, buy a new one to keep you working.
Second, get an old Burger King crown and turn this into a sword and stone challenge for friends who visit your shop. If anyone can extract the broken bit, put the crown on them for the day and buy them a beer/coffee/whatever.
Turn it off then turn it back on again.
Drill it screw it and pull out!
Throw it on the concrete a bunch of times.
Or if you have access to a welder, tack something to it and yank it out with a slide hammer and bench vise
Hit the side with a hammer.
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Grab it from the bottom thigh. And use something and hit it at this angle. It will turn. Then you can remove it.
It’s a stuck square basically..
You could also drill and put a screw and pull it.. after your turned it to the right
get tap insert threads then screw it out
Toss at ground to loosen, then with a straight angle pick wiggle it out.
If you have not somehow friction welded them together.
Vice if you have it and needle nose to see if you can get anything good out of it. I mean, rotate clock wise, wiggle, pull etc.
If that does not work, you can always try the bearing removal trick of shoving grease in the available openings followed by bread and tapping it down. The grease should fill the very little open space at the back and the bread will act as a seal so it's forced deeper in. The pressure should start to push the extension tip out.
If the extension was a craftsman, take both to Lowes and try to get them to lifetime it. Quality won't be the same if this is old stock.
Try to get it hot as possible then dip it into water the rapid expansion and contraction might do something and then throw it at the ground.
How do you not have a drill???
Weld a nut to ot and yank it out with molegrips 👌 weld through the centre of the nut or even better use a thick penny washer thats bigger diameter than the socket with small centre hole...it'll come out no problem 👌
Drill and extractor bits. But that's ABSOLUTELY Not worth the effort and cost of hardened drill bits as compared to just buying a new one.
Aren’t these like $4? Take the L.
Put that thing on display as a trophy of your brute strength, or maybe idiocy, or maybe sumin else… but regardless thats not an easy thing to break.
And that is why you don't use chrome with an impact. Go buy the right tools.
Drill and tap it then thread in a screw
The best way to get that out is to get your wallet out and buy a new one
Vice grip and drill it out
No drill no problem. Weld something to the back of it.
That's gotta be what......a whole 2 dollars? Not worth the time dude, just get a new one.
Yes? Next question
Throw it at the ground at mach fuck
If that doesnt work, heat it with a propane torch and throw it at the ground at mach fuck
If that doesnt work, I think lowes would honor the warranty? Not entirely sure.
insert into an extension. use the extension for a handle. holding the handle, lay it on an anvil or other thick steel surface. hit it, softly at first with the big hammer. roll it 90 degrees and hit it again. it shouldn’t take much to loosen it up.
Heat it
Drill it out
Sure, drill it out.
Can't be stuck if its liquid
Dude, obviously you enjoy pain and suffering! Can’t you get those at Harbor Freight for like $5.
I've extracted stuff like this for several of my coworkers with success. I use a welder, and a nut. Center the nut over the broken bit and carefully weld through the nut to the broken bit. Fill the nut with weld and let cool. Then grab the nut with pliers and it should come right out. Be very careful not to weld to the socket you're trying to save.
But a new one and get on with it.
No easy way bro. You can put the bit in a vice and drill it out. It might take you 15 minutes. Or you can tell your wife your old one broke so now you need the new 150 piece kit. Its justifies you spending $120 on a new tool kit. This is guy math
Thoughts and prayers?
Better off just getting a new one. What $10?
Why bother toss it and buy another 🙄
You can drill it out in a drill press. Just use a drill slightly smaller than the opening, center it and peck it real slow and often. You'll likely ruin a drill or 2 but it can be done. You can also use a ball end mill the same way.
do you have a bit small enough to fit into a corner hole, you may be able to pull it out
Lock it into a vice, drill a hole then screw extractor.