<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">With an open faced block, couldn't you drill a pilot hole and install a screw alongside the broken one?<div>Then just veneer and stain over the broken one.</div><div>Or get a broken screw extractor, available in 1/4"  and 3/8', Pianotek has them. Cut a hole around the broken screw.</div><div>Then plug and install a new screw.</div><div>John Ross</div><div>Windsor, Nova Scotia</div><div><br><div><div>On 2011-07-14, at 9:46 PM, David Renaud wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Plate screw snapped putting it back in.....old screw.....<br>Left front corner of a boesendorfer plate. Open face block.....<br>pin block is replaced and well attached to the stretcher and shelf...<br>There are 2 other plate screws into the front shelf of the plate in that corner<br>6 inches or so from the corner, so perhaps that screw is redundant?<br><br>I tried to drill it out with a titanium bit advertised to drill steel.....<br>It ripped to shreds as attempting to drill it out, and now there is titanium in the hole also.<br><br>Ideas?<br>Tempted to fill it with epoxy And put in a short fat screw.........<br>Are there drill bits out there that should handle cleaning this out to fill, plug and redrill?<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Sent from my iPad</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>