{"id":1372,"date":"2009-03-22T20:45:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T01:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2009-03-22T21:05:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T02:05:59","slug":"broken-black-decker-screw-extractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/22\/broken-black-decker-screw-extractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Black & Decker Screw Extractor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To deal with the stripped cleat screw problem mentioned earlier<\/a> I headed over to Home Depot, encountered a toilet<\/a>, then bought a Black & Decker Screw Extractor Set (#16270). Also known as “easy-outs”, these conical, left-hand threaded tap-like devices allow you to drill out the head (or center) of a screw and then thread the extractor down inside and remove the screw. These are useful when you strip the head of a screw, have rusty parts, break screw heads off, and other things like this. That is, they are useful when they don’t snap on first use.<\/p>\n

I drilled out the hole, set the extractor in the hole, attached a tap handle, then started turning the extractor to embed it in the screw and break the screw loose. Right as I did this, there was a subtle POP and the whole tip of the extractor broke off and remained lodged in the hole.<\/p>\n

While I was able to drill out the other screws to a slightly larger size and use the broken extractor, the first screw now had a bunch of very hard metal stuck in the center of it. This particularly hard steel thwarted all efforts at drilling with the bits I had on hand, so I had to slot the screw with a cut-off wheel, then go at it with a screwdriver. One very large screwdriver and a surprising amount of torque later and all four screws were out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To deal with the stripped cleat screw problem mentioned earlier I headed over to Home Depot, encountered a toilet, then bought a Black & Decker…<\/p>\n

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