purchase a left hand drill bit that is about 3/4 the size of screw shank. Use a center punch to tap an indentation as close to the exact center as you can. Put drill in reverse so bit bites into shank. if you are lucky the shank will back out. If you aren't the hole will be large enough so that you can put an EZ out into the hole and then back it out. An alternate method is to cut a slot into the shank (if there is room) and use a small screw driver and back it out that way. Use a good quality screw driver for this (craftsman or equivalent) other wise tip will just bend...Good luck!! On 7/14/07, tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org <tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org> wrote: > Send tclug-list mailing list submissions to > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tclug-list-owner at mn-linux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of tclug-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Broke off screw head (Joey Rockhold) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:59:12 -0500 > From: "Joey Rockhold" <joey.rockhold at gmail.com> > Subject: [tclug-list] Broke off screw head > To: "tclug-list at mn-linux.org" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Message-ID: > <101e49ea0707140859s4153b32eg6d227494eac445af at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I have a screw head that broke off on a hard drive. Does anyone have an > easy trick to extract the rest of the screw out of the hard drive without > damaging the threads (or the hard drive for that matter). It is recessed in > a little bit. > > Thanks for the help. > > - Joey > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070714/6c6444d0/attachment.html > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > End of tclug-list Digest, Vol 31, Issue 11 > ****************************************** >