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sleepy1

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I have a brass fill plug in a row unit and it won't move with allen wrench head and it is starting to strip out any ideas how to get it loose?
 
Drill all the way through with bigger and bigger bits until the hole is round. Select an Allen wrench slightly bigger than the hole, and grind the end flat so as to make sharp corners that will cut the plug. Then drive it on through. I've had better luck with that method than with E-Z outs, because they have to expand the thing you're trying to get out, to a certain extent, in order to get a bite on it.
 
I have had luck before by using a ball-peen hammer to peen the edges of the plug to make the hole smaller. Then drive the wrench into the hole.
 
Are you sure that it is brass we had a couple in our corn head that we thought were brass but were some sort of alloy.We ended up welding a bolt to them and getting them out.
 
I'm not sure how it will work for brass but on say an engine block with steel plugs you just heat the plug with a torch until it is red hot. When you do this the plug tries to expand but it cant because the block is holding it back so it kind of collapses into itself. Now just let it cool and it will shrink and then it will turn out using only your fingers. With brass I think it will work but you will have to take a little more care with how hot you get it or it will just melt. If its on the bottom I guess you could just melt it out but if its on the top the molten brass will end up in the gear box.
 
Thanks we got them our but what a job don't know what they were they were soft like brass but were bonded to the to the gear boxes.Order some steel ones on line.
 
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