Help please need a good screw extractor for #2 screw

**Camelot** · 11th March 2023, 11:37 AM

For brass screws apart from using wax/soup it is far better (or more safe from a snapping point of view) to first put in a good quality steel screw of the same gauge and thread type, but before doing this drill a pilot hole just smaller than the gauge thickness of the screw then line the slots up with the stronger steel screws, now when you come to put in the brass screw it has a path to follow thus no resistance or heat build up in the brass screw.

**Fuzzie** · 11th March 2023, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by auscab

The guy who invents a way of perfectly aligning slots in screws would be appreciated. The starting point of a thread and the slot are probably different on every screw (Ive never checked ). The only way would be test fitting each screw to see where the slot ends up when the screw is tight and adjusting the starting point in the job for each screw.

I read somewhere the way to do this was to insert the screws, mark the clocks, take them out, file down the head and make a new slot in desired position. I have a vague feeling it was in a thread talking about how the railways coach builders worked.

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