Once the head of a screw gets stripped, you may feel like it's never going to come back out. But there are two ways to remove a stripped screw—externally and internally. Which one you choose depends ...

It’s a novice carpenter’s worst nightmare: you’re trying to tighten or remove a screw and you find the head is stripped. You press the screwdriver or drill bit into the head and try to turn, but there ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Dealing with a stripped screw can be very ...