I’m installing kitchen cabs for a HO. One cab had a lose hinge. I attempted to tighten the screw that holds the hinge to the cab frame. The screw really didn’t want to turn, I wound up trying a little harder to turn in and well……the screw head broke off and the shank broke off partway into the frame. it’s a small screw in diameter. I need to reuse that screwhole because the hinges recess into the cab door which obviously can’t change. The screw broke off not quite 1/8″ inside the frame so I can’t get in there with pliers or anything without doing some damage. The frame is 3/4″. Any ideas?
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screw extractor and glue in a wood plug...
better hardware stores and wood workin outlets have them...
never saw one at a big box...
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Edited 9/28/2006 6:42 pm by IMERC
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got a plan "C" in the works...
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You may have to get a screw remover that is like a tube with saw teeth on the end. they will bite into the screw and remove it if you're lucky. Otherwise you will have a larger hole which you can fill with a dowell.
Here is a sample....
http://www.hartvilletool.com/product/10864
Here is a totally different method I've used.
Let us assume you are using flat head brass screws? Or at least relatively 'soft' (untempered) screws if you broke one off.
Leave the old screw alone.
Drill slightly large (so you dont break off the 2nd screw, then you do have a problem pilot hole next to it at an angle and install the new screw, which will be left with a crooked head with one edge sticking up.
Big strong big setback clamp (so it will fit with the door on) , steel block over the screw, wood backer block on the side of cabinet, clamp that puppy down and flatten out the new screw head.
(does NOT work with piffin screws) Note "piffin" not capitalized, it has become genreic term like asprin.
One other method if the hinge has 3 screws where one broke - simply put some epoxy behind the hinge for extra strength and epoxy the screw head you broke off into the countersink.
good ideas..
can I steal them...
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newbies should be given the definition of piffin screws. Sheetrock screws or other cheap brittle inadequate screws for a task. Another solution is to drill a new hole in the hnge in place and using a new screw there. Best to remove the hinge to do this so you can drill a larger hole in the metal and tighter hole in the face frame wood.Usually in this type of hinge, the screw is in a slot for adjustment, so there is plenty of room to just do as you said and drill the new screw next to the old shank.
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Hmmm, that's the definition of piffin? I never knew that. Incidentally, I have been using some DW screws to join the cab frames and cursing from breaking the heads off 'em. But those 3 inchers they give are too long. So I guess I been using piffin screws in that sense.
So what is the origin of the word "piffin?"
Piffin is a way of verbalizing my initials, PFN.I rail against anybody who uses
SHEET
ROCK
SCREWS
to do anything other than hang sheet rock, because they are made from brittle cheap metal. That is fine when they only jhave to be in tension against the paper surfacce and maleable backing of sheet rock. That is what they are designed for. Bu5t when they are used for wood joinery, they can be expected to fail. In my remodeling I can't say how many times I have removed wall cabinets that were hung with SR screws and found that 25-35% of them had the shoulders snapped off, possibly since the day they were installed. That is an unacceptable danger to occupants. Especiallly occupants who load wall cabs like the stoneware my wife puts in or the canned goods my mother put in.There are fine cabinet screws and structural screws for the purpose. You have now been exposed to the Piffin PastoraleGo forth and screw no mo unless with good screws.I use GRK Torx head
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Go to a hobby /model shop and get some tube that is just bigger in inside diameter than the screw cut teeth on the end and chuck it in a drill and cut out the screw .Then epoxy a dowel, whittled if necessary and re fit the screw, pilot drill if required.In case you are using brass screws you might consider running in a steel one first in future.Really similar to Mark H reply but make your own cutter.I have even used brass tube on cherry wood with success.
If you want to make your own, automotive brake line works OK too.
Got a Dremel? Cut a slot in the screw shank with a carbide cutting wheel and then use a screwdriver to back it out.
Get yourself a 10 mm drill bit and make a jig so the bit wont walk, then have at the screw and drill a hole for one of those 10 mm plastic plugs that commercial cabinet makers use to hang their hinges. press the plug in and your good to go