How do you get a keensert out?

Jan 28, 2011 5 Replies

There's a bin with some aluminum cutoffs with hard steel bushings and Keenserts inserts in them. I can just press out the bushings, but is there a less wasteful way of getting the keenserts out without breaking too much stuff, or should I just go ahead and press them out, and to heck with the aluminum that gets entrained in the threads?



It's for recycling, and I have lots of spare time here, so "how long it takes" isn't a consideration, but there is no budget for new tools.



Meanwhile, the PHB is shopping around for a scrapper who will take aluminum with all that crap in it - I figure I can make his job a little easier - take out the steel and whatever keenserts are made of, and get full scrap price for the aluminum. :-)



(and maybe save the bushings in the "misc. hard steel" bin. ;-))



Thanks! Rich



You take keenserts out with a drill, punch and ezout tool..

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look at the last page of the pdf.

I'll have to check on the EZout, but otherwise, I'm all set. >:->

Thanks! Rich

Left hand drill bits. If they come out, good. If not you drill them out. BIG difference in scrap price from "dirty" to "clean"

2nd this route. BTW, I HATE EASY OUTS. Damn things normally just expand your part and then break off in it. Then you are FUBAR

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