at my local ace hardware I found "easy outs" with a built in left hand drill
bit on the tip, often just the drilling process into the shank of the broken
screw is enough to get it backed out enough to grab on with pliers. I've
heard of sets of left hand drill bits being available but never been
desperate enough to try and find them

brian


"Jim Woodward" jameslwoodward at attbi dot com wrote in message
...
Thanks, Jim, for something I'd never seen....

I found the web site:
http://www.tltools.com/tlt/


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Jim Woodward
www.mvFintry.com


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"Jim Conlin" wrote in message
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Try T&L Screw Extractor
T&L tools
22 Vinegar Hill Rd.
Gales Ferry, CT 06335
Tel. 203-464 -9485

They are tubular screw extractors. They're sized slightly smaller in ID
than
the screw shank. They grasp the shank firmly and back it out.
There are others on the market which are a thin-wall hole saw, intended
to
cut
through the wood around the screw. They're brittle and sometimes
shatter
and
leave a larger hole. Woodcraft Supply has 'em.

Keith wrote:

Does anyone know of a source for these?

I occasinally snap the head off a screw and need something to back
them
out
of the wood without carving a huge hole out for pliers. I would
imagine
what
I need is something that's kind of a mirror image of the Craftsmen
screw
removers... I need something with a concave cutting "dimple" that
would
fit
over the end of a screw shaft and bite into it, allowing me to back it
out.