little bobby
Well-known member
OK, good news. The extractor kit worked and the handle is still in one piece!
So here's what I did. A few photos to show what's needed.
I bought an extractor kit from my local orange-apron home improvement store. It was about $9.00. I could have bought just a single extractor, but I figured this kit could potentially have more use in the future, so the few extra bucks for all of the extractors was worth it. I also used a 5/32 drill bit that I had at home and my drill.
I used the 5/32 drill bit to drill a hole in the damaged bolt. You can see the hole in the image below (pardon the dirty fingernail). According to the little diagram on the extractor kit, because I used a 5/32 drill bit, I should use the #3 extractor. So I did. Their instructions say to hammer it into the hole you drilled. Not going to happen on my camera. So what I did was put the extractor in my drill, tighten the chuck, and set the direction to reverse. I was sitting down so I wedged the camera baseplate and the top handle in-between my legs so I wouldn't damage the LCD or EVF. I pushed fairly hard against the drill while I slowly had it going in reverse. I thought it would never catch but it finally did and extracted the bolt really easily.
After removing it, I realized that this bolt did not have the spring on it like the other bolt has. Could be why it was able to be over-tightened. I'm not sure yet what type of bolt I want to replace this one with. I'm not sure what type of head pattern would last a long time, but I might grab a few different bolts from Ace tonight and see what works.
Anyways, hopefully this helps someone else in the future.
So here's what I did. A few photos to show what's needed.
I bought an extractor kit from my local orange-apron home improvement store. It was about $9.00. I could have bought just a single extractor, but I figured this kit could potentially have more use in the future, so the few extra bucks for all of the extractors was worth it. I also used a 5/32 drill bit that I had at home and my drill.
I used the 5/32 drill bit to drill a hole in the damaged bolt. You can see the hole in the image below (pardon the dirty fingernail). According to the little diagram on the extractor kit, because I used a 5/32 drill bit, I should use the #3 extractor. So I did. Their instructions say to hammer it into the hole you drilled. Not going to happen on my camera. So what I did was put the extractor in my drill, tighten the chuck, and set the direction to reverse. I was sitting down so I wedged the camera baseplate and the top handle in-between my legs so I wouldn't damage the LCD or EVF. I pushed fairly hard against the drill while I slowly had it going in reverse. I thought it would never catch but it finally did and extracted the bolt really easily.
After removing it, I realized that this bolt did not have the spring on it like the other bolt has. Could be why it was able to be over-tightened. I'm not sure yet what type of bolt I want to replace this one with. I'm not sure what type of head pattern would last a long time, but I might grab a few different bolts from Ace tonight and see what works.
Anyways, hopefully this helps someone else in the future.