Woodworking Tips-How to Repair Broken Wood Screws
by Dana Cain
Drilling a screw into softwood can be a tricky affair. If you don't ready the spot where you're going to drill the screw, you are looking at a lot of wasted screws in your future. However, let's get real here. Things happen and just the slightest wrong angel with your drill and you are looking at a screw with a stripped head. Deckings, drywalls, softwoods are a cursed nightmare where the drilling of screws is concerned. Things happen when you are in a rush and forget about drilling a pilot hole so you don't damage your screw.
Removing broken screws:
If the screw breaks above the wood and you can get a grip on it with pliers then you can just unscrew it by using the pliers. If your screw has broken inside the wood, forget the pliers and don't bother removing it. Just cover it up. However, if you need to drill a new screw right next to the one that broke, but the latter prevents you from doing so, do not despair, because there is always a way to remove a screw fragment.
One such way is using the screw extractor, which is a tool that was created especially for this purpose, and that you can purchase in any accessory or woodworking tool stores. It is a metal flute-shaped tool with toothed edges. You can use it to extract a plug out of the wood and replace it with a wood dowel coated in glue so it won't break free. Then a new screw can be drilled in the same place with no problem.
If you would rather not use the special tool you can dig around the broken screw until you can grasp the end with pliers and use them to back the screw out of the wood. Once you've cleaned out the hole and glued a wooden dowel in it, you can drill in a new screw.
It is preferable that the dowel you're going to stick in the hole, match the wood in texture; so you can make it from a piece of wood that will probably go to left-overs when you finish your project. When your screw breaks in the middle of attaching hinges you may be able to affix the head of the screw in to the hole by using an epoxy resin. When it comes to hinges, using the screw repair method will probably just result in the screw splitting the wood and usually one screw is sufficient to hold the hinge. Trying to fix the second screw can make it twist in the hole and cause problems.
A few tips on screw damage control:
Drilling a screw into hard wood will always require a pilot hole first. If you're attaching a hinge that needs brass screws, it is best that you use steel screws first. Then you can remove them and put the brass ones instead. When experiencing a stubborn screw, try using some soap or wax to help it ease into the wood with less resistance.
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