Broken screw? Here's what to do originally appeared on Dengarden. I had eight stripped and broken screws that were rusted and completely stuck, but I needed to remove them to replace a part. I started ...
Screws get stuck, and it often takes ingenuity as well as elbow grease to get them unstuck. Back in the good old days, it was common practice to coat the threads of a screw with a little beeswax ...
The best ratcheting can help you apply extra torque to stubborn screws, nuts, and bolts. See our results when we put our top ...
If you live near the Rust Belt and work on cars, you’ve run into a pesky screw held in an assembly with the best thread locker ever—rust. Now, there are a handful of ways to get the job done: You can ...
Screws are a secure way to hold two objects together and will do their jobs so well that over time, as they rust and corrode, they become almost impossible to remove. There’s no shortage of tools and ...
Any backyard mechanic knows how difficult and frustrating it can be to remove a screw that is broken or stripped, but with medical hardware like bone screws the matter can be more serious. Now a ...
When you have a nail or screw you can’t seem to remove, cutting it down might be your best option. If you don’t have a metal saw around, this trick will let you use the backside of a normal ...
Desperate cry for help, to anyone with a good knowledge of hand tools!<P>I was trying to attach a shelf to the wall of my bedroom, so I could get my speakers off my desk. I was using the big ol' ...