The best-laid DIY project plans can hit a snag if a stripped screw turns up. Though stuck fasteners with stripped heads can certainly slow down your progress, they’re not impossible to deal with. We ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. No matter how powerful your drill is, there's always the chance that you'll run into one of a DIYer's worst nightmares — a stripped screw. No ...

It was supposed to be a quick and easy repair. But darn it, one of the screws wouldn't budge, and so by the time you finally finished, it had grown dark outside. Yes, stripped screws are extremely ...

A stripped screw can range from mildly frustrating to ruining a project you're working on, but you can easily fix it if you have a rubber band.

A stripped screw can turn a quick fix or small adjustment into a big hassle. It can happen to any screw and can make removing or tightening it almost impossible. You might encounter a stripped screw ...

Few things seem more hopeless than when you're in the process of removing a bolt, screw, or stud and it breaks. At that point, you know it's all over but the crying. You've busted a bolt off in a ...

February 2, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google The head of the screw you stripped while you were hanging that shelf may not have seemed like a big deal at the ...

While I was removing my old license plates from my car yesterday, the head broke off. Great I thought. I knew that there were tools that I could use to extract the screw like this, but so far, it hasn ...

Few things seem more hopeless than when you're in the process of removing a bolt, screw, or stud and it breaks. At that point, you know it's all over but the crying. You've busted a bolt off in a ...