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The difficulty is, at what point do you stop and think, this is too tight for me to do?
It's all about experience. When you've rounded and snapped a few bolts and not rounded and snapped a few thousand you sort of develop an internal torque wrench.
Personally I reckon I'd have noticed the first bolt was tight, then stopped before I rounded the second one, replaced the top bolt with a brand new stainless steel one, and tightened that as hard as I dared to take pressure off the tighter second bolt. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't, but if you carry on you bugger it all up!
pretty sure that's an acknowledge that I was correct [s]and NOT being a dick.[/s]
FTFY.
Well done on getting a good resolution though. You clearly put yourself across better in person than you do on the internet, which is not hard.
Good news for the OP.
Im not passing judgement on his methods, as its something we could all have easily done.
One thing I would suggest, if the shop was able to get the bolt undone (he didn't say how, so apologies if I've misinterpreted), perhaps invest in some new allen keys.
I thought I'd written off a crank using a cheap crank remover tool (square taper, tool pushed itself out of the extractor threads). Purchased a decent park tool and the threads were a bit deeper and pushed the crank off.
Tools do wear and with allen keys its definitely worth replacing with some "sharper" ones now and then.