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someone (pb blaster?) has come out with a penetrating oil that supposedly puts the "freeze" on the metal- super chilling it to free up some tolerance

Oh, yeah, forgot about the PB blaster incident on my wedding night...well, maybe I did learn something that could be useful to this thread.

man im telling you a machine shop probably wouldnt charge you more than $15 to extract that shit. The them its just a matter of putting it under a drill press and then running a tap through it. Wouldnt take much time at all and would end up being cheaper than some shit ass craftsman bolt extractors. Trust me on this, you break one of those hardened steel extractors off in there, which will happen, and you'll be worse off than you started.