Bill Kidd wrote: <<Many years ago I bought a tool from Wurlitzer that worked great for removing broken action screws. It fits in a combination handle. Possibly it is still available from Wurlitzer/Baldwin.>> I agree. Wurlitzer said they had the problem with breakage because the alloy of the metal used in one large lot of screws was wrong and the screws were too brittle.They broke rather than "spring" downwards. They said that the proper screws, right alloy, would never break. They said such things to avoid admitting it was a stupid design. When one complained to the company, they sent out, free, four new screws and an extractor that bit into the end of the screw shank, alowing it to be turned out, with difficulty. The extractor looks like a tube with four sharp prongs on the end, squashed toward the center of the tube. The prongs bit into the shank in four places. There has to be some of these things around, but if not, check with a machine tools dealer. You are not the first one to have to retrieve a shank from a hole, and there are specialized extractors to do this. Just exactly describe your problem, with dimensions in thousandths of an inch. If you cannot find another screw, I thnk I have a few here, the "good" kind. Bill Simon Phoenix.
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