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Originally posted by ssdave:
I glass mine in place also, they won't come out easy.

I have a few sets of those, there was a guy selling them on ebay a few years ago, they went for about $15 a set of 2. I'll let you have one if you can't locate them elsewhere.

On getting them out, I'd drill them out with a bit just slightlly smaller than the screw side of the bolt. If you guess the correct side, the screw will then separate from the rest and you can drive out the sleeve. If they're glassed in, you might have to drill all the way through with a screw sized bit, follow that up with a sleeve sized bit, and then re-glass the replacement in. To make sure you drill straight, clamp a board on your drill press table, use a bit in the chuck to drill a small hole in the board, and put in a pin that just goes into the hex recess in the crossbolt. Now you can locate the crossbolt perfectly straight under the bit to drill it.

If you have to drill all the way out, drill with a size that is equal to the screws size first, not the sleeve. If you try to drill full size, the bit will go out one side, and then wander away from the harder metal into the wood.

dave