I bought mine several years ago ... about the time they did this video. Never used it until today. Working on my shed, there were several Phillipshead screws that were painted-over and embedded into the wood. The extractorS worked fine BUT (1) start at a slow speed when extracting, and (2) if the "correct" bit doesn't work, go to the next larger, and so on. That got me through a couple of very pesky screws. One "strike-out" ... a screw that wouldn't (wooden-t?) release was actually turning in the wood, so I just pryed the board loose; the screw wasn't holding-on to anything. Thanks for the great info and demo!
Finally someone clarified you're suppose to go in reverse with both sides. Ever since I bought this, I thought one side was regular and one side was reverse! Now, following these instructions, I got my first stripped screw out! Immediately after, I tried on another screw and I fail.
Excellent video. Thank you. (One suggestion: I think a half-minute musical video montage intro is a excessive for a 3-minute "how to" video. But thanks for such a professional, informative video, nonetheless.)
Thanks very helpful!!!!!!!!! I purchased Speedout 5 years ago. At the time I had no use for the tool, but thought it would be something worth adding to my tool collection. Wala, 5 years later I have 2 stripped screws that must come out to replace door hinges. Works like magic. I was drilling in the wrong direction, but followed your direction and was done in 2 minutes. Thanks again!
THANK YOU! there are FAR too many Shop Snobs that think "How could you POSSIBLY not know how to use/do XYZ", forgetting how few people were privileged enough to grow up with a handy parent, or owning property... so much so that tools like these don't come with instructions! 😖
This is very informative for someone like me who has never used this before since the depiction on the the inside of bit case wasn't accurate, I could NOT differentiate the two bits and which side of the bit they meant, do truly thank you.
Thanks for that. I have a ridiculously large collection of screw extractors, but none of them worked very well, and I had just about given up. Now, after seeing this video, I'm going to try again.
You need this in your life ! I got a kit like this a year ago and use it for the first time the other day.. i messed up the screw heads bad... took seconds with this !
Thanks for this video. I had bought a "kit" of these extractors but didn't know how to use them. I have made a note based upon your instruction to tape into the lid of my "kit". That way if I ever need it, I will know how to use it as I won't trust my memory.
Have a Fisher and Paykel top loader gas dryer that was making a screeching noise due to a bad bearing. The M5 allen bolt on the inside of the drum was frozen and I ended up rounding it so that nothing would work to get it out. Went to Lowe's and bought a SpeedOut kit and ended up using the largest of the extractors and followed the instructions to the letter. Reamed it first with the drill in reverse to at least 1/16" of an inch into the bolt and then flipped the bit and used the extractor. The 1/2" drill I was using didn't have the power to turn the bolt (only to bite the bit into the bolt), so I clamped on a Vise-Grips locking pliers to the extractor bit and gave it a very slow, hard turn. And sure enough, I heard a snap and that bolt came loose. The extractor was into the bolt deep enough so that the heavy 1/2" drill I was using was literally hanging from it, but it didn't have the torque to do break the bolt. But, the SpeedOut did do the job. Consider me impressed with the tool. It may not work in all circumstances, but it is definitely something to have in the toolkit when all else fails. For $10 and a trip to Lowe's, it saved the day.
👍🙏Thank you sir! 💝 Thank you for helping all of us daddyless daughters out here. Daddy died before he could teach me about this stuff. It takes a village!! RIP daddy. 🙏🤗💞🤗
I got this a year ago, never use it, until yesterday, installing a toilet floor flange, messed up the head of one screw, bust out this tool, and it took 5 seconds to remove the broken screw! Should deff be in your kit ! 👍
@@michaelxnightmare Could you please clarify what you mean by "turn left side 1 and 2" I'm about to buy a broken screw extractor set to take on a project of trying to remove a metal screw with whats left of a Phillips screw head and with my luck I'll have the same experience as commenter Avnish Anand who said that side 2 would not grip. You replied to him to "turn left side 1 and 2" since he was having trouble but I don't know what you meant. Thanks.
it was very helpful, but I missed the part were I guess you had used a metal screw first to gage the hole size. Then again if that was info OR demonstration that was needed to be shown. Might as well did for me!
Great video! Question: What can be done if the head of the crew has broken off. Will you use the same procedure or will there be an extra few steps. Please elaborate!
You need to drill pretty deep for the extractor to be able to grab. The "boogering" of the screw he did at the beginning was more of a exercise in doing the drilling that's needed. That part of his video made the process misleading at best.
I bought a 4-piece set from Homedepot and it worked great with little drilling first. The teeth caught screws very well and the drill bit still stuck to a screw after I unscrewed it out. It took like 1 or so minute to unscrew one screw.
Thanks for sharing this video. I will give it a try tomorrow. I just got a similar screw extractor and i hope it works because I have a big deck full of old screws to remove and I noticed some/most are hard to get them out. THANKS
I was skeptical at first, but logically it made sense. I was working on the car with a stubborn and rounded out screw, picked up the craftsman screw extractor and took it out in less than a minute. totally worth it IMHO. it's possible in some scenarios it may not work, such as where you need to put significant amount of torque. just drill counterclockwise for both sides. make sure to get a good depth into the head of the screw before using the second part.
Just bought these guys and I'm gonna use these guys to get the bad guys out. Wish me luck guys, oh thanks to the guy in the video is the reason I bought these guys.
tried the screw extractors on a screw that was givin me headaches for quite a time now. At first it did not work, but i honestly forgot to put it on reverse. Well then it came out within a second with the Side 1 ! so it works, even with smaller screws, mine barely fit the smallest extractor i had in my set.
FANTASTIC VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!! Explained and demonstrated it PERFECTLY. thank you so much. it came out right away following your steps. THE BEST DRILL OUT VIDEO ON TH-cam!!!!
these are my secret weapon on the job. other people struggle with other inferior extractors or methods and I walk in with my grabit kit. I've used them in an angle drill too and have had success in some of the most ridiculous and hard to reach places.
I needed to know this for my project i couldn't complete because the screws were stripped and i didnt have enough money to get extractors or even knew how to use them at the time
But is it worth getting extractor kit if the screws are very tight deep and the wood old? Like Rvs an MH have crappy specialty screws if pre 70s. Often damaged and if you pull you may take half a sheet of drywall and even a 1-2 inch ching from a stud!!! Wil you have to pressure to remove something so tight you cant manually even make it squeak more than once.
I have a damaged screw on my dsi and to repair it from a broken LCD screen so this was not of help because where am i gonna find tiny screws to do this :(
I found that once you have used side 1 to smooth out the head, side 2 just spins around. You have to use side 2 of bit that is 1 size bigger , only then will the screw come out.
The basic air conditioner screw I am trying to get out totally outmatched the extractor bit. It could never get any kind of bite on the screw material. This method apparently depends on having used screws made of soft materials, which is not very useful or helpful if quality screws were used.
Thank you. Picking the size was a little confusing still for me but I got it. It worked for me but I tried the smallest bit first and it didn’t work so then I tried the second size and it worked!
What about trying to put a bolt INTO the item I’m using an Allen wrench and the hole is toast. I can’t drive the bolt in any further. Can I use this tool for continuing to insert the bolt??
Spent weeks trying to remove screws attached to stainless steel. I tried EZ Outs/Speed Outs, screw extractors, rubber bands, super glue, drill bits, gloves, and the only thing that worked was using a rotary tool with cutter (Harbor Freight $10) to cut a line/slit(Phillips flathead) in the center of the screw so an Impact Driver can hold onto the screw. My screw was too short and the material was very soft. Put painters tape on the screw before using an Impact Driver(Amazon $12). This was the only thing that worked for me. Hope this helps someone out there.
Good video and sounds simple. I tried to extract a screw, but the extractor end got stuck. When I applied more force, it broke off and I was left with a mess. I would recommend you to use screw extractors only if you know what you are doing, otherwise ask someone who does.
Do these work for bolts as well? For say, I do repairs etc for a laundromat. And the guys who did it before me used a drill and stripped almost every bolt on the washer and dryers and there impossible to get out. Right now I’m using drill bits and popping the heads off than using vice grips too get the bolt out. And it takes a good 5-10 minutes alone just too get the head too pop and I’m looking for a better and faster alternative
I would have made some corny remark about Phillips head vs Robertson but those days are long gone now that Robertson has lost their patent and 'everyone' is making American Square Head screws w/ square sides vs the patented wedge shape. Anyways, long story short - all the screws are crap now, not Robertson, cheap materials and strip or twist off at the first provocation. Nice video, clear demonstration and pretty good sound quality even for this deaf old dog. Now that all my screws are screwed I'm going to have to get me some of these.
I tried this tool...I went in reverse for both ends of tool. When reverse didnt work I tried forward on the "drill" end and reverse on the grabber end..still no luck. I went slow and I put pressure on the drill as instructions stated...no luck. Waste of money:( good video..thanks..at least I know I was doing it correctly:)
Just got back from a big box store and bought a set of 4 of these bits. Tried the smallest one on a brass screw that is stripped. Didn't work. Tried the next biggest size as recommended in the product box. Still didn't work. I'll chalk it up to the fact this screw is brass so it will not hold a good bite on any tool but if it's because I used a drill instead of an impact driver, I'll be beaked because the product package says all you need is a drill.
What can you do if you have a screw in plastic that you can turn with a screwdriver, but the threads are stripped a when you turn it counter-clockwise it just turns and turns without coming out?
for those still unable to remove stripped screws with the extractor set: Use a larger sized extractor because the one you are using is too small 1. drill screw head with larger drill bit 2. use a grinding head and smooth out the larger hole. Otherwise the metal shavings will keep the extractor from biting into the screw metal 3. clean out the hole 4. Insert next larger sized extractor into hole 5. turn extractor COUNTER-CLOCKWISE
I bought mine several years ago ... about the time they did this video. Never used it until today. Working on my shed, there were several Phillipshead screws that were painted-over and embedded into the wood. The extractorS worked fine BUT (1) start at a slow speed when extracting, and (2) if the "correct" bit doesn't work, go to the next larger, and so on. That got me through a couple of very pesky screws. One "strike-out" ... a screw that wouldn't (wooden-t?) release was actually turning in the wood, so I just pryed the board loose; the screw wasn't holding-on to anything. Thanks for the great info and demo!
Thanks for posting this with details, showing the side 1 & 2. I got a Dewalt kit, no instructions, nothing online... Appreciate ppl like you! 👍
Finally someone clarified you're suppose to go in reverse with both sides. Ever since I bought this, I thought one side was regular and one side was reverse! Now, following these instructions, I got my first stripped screw out! Immediately after, I tried on another screw and I fail.
Excellent video. Thank you. (One suggestion: I think a half-minute musical video montage intro is a excessive for a 3-minute "how to" video. But thanks for such a professional, informative video, nonetheless.)
I had bought this very set and there were no instructions on how to use it. This video was the answer. Clear , concise and it worked.
Thanks very helpful!!!!!!!!! I purchased Speedout 5 years ago. At the time I had no use for the tool, but thought it would be something worth adding to my tool collection. Wala, 5 years later I have 2 stripped screws that must come out to replace door hinges. Works like magic. I was drilling in the wrong direction, but followed your direction and was done in 2 minutes. Thanks again!
1 minute of content condensed into a 3 and a half minute video. Brevity is wit!
Thanks, got my first kit today which had no instructions(just like almost everything today) I'll be bookmarking this video in case I forget.
THANK YOU!
there are FAR too many Shop Snobs that think "How could you POSSIBLY not know how to use/do XYZ", forgetting how few people were privileged enough to grow up with a handy parent, or owning property... so much so that tools like these don't come with instructions! 😖
Could not get over how easy this was to do. Thanks!
Somebody who actually gets to the point, thanks!!!
What?
A 3 and a half minute video where the information you need is all the way in minute 2:50
Thanks for this great explanation. I used all your tips and got some janky 100 yr old screws out of some door hinges.
this stripped screwdriver issue, is the stuff of nightmares, oh the frustration, the pain, the hoplessness lol
This is very informative for someone like me who has never used this before since the depiction on the the inside of bit case wasn't accurate, I could NOT differentiate the two bits and which side of the bit they meant, do truly thank you.
Thanks for that. I have a ridiculously large collection of screw extractors, but none of them worked very well, and I had just about given up. Now, after seeing this video, I'm going to try again.
Did it work, I've got 2 sets and side 2 (extractor) never works!
You need this in your life ! I got a kit like this a year ago and use it for the first time the other day.. i messed up the screw heads bad... took seconds with this !
Great video. After watching, bought a screw extractor kit and it worked perfectly for me on a stripped bed frame screw
I have the smoothing out part nailed down, that's why I'm here HAHAHA
Ha! Don’t we all ......
Lmfao same here😅
Same man
😂😂
Best comment! Hahaha
Thank you. My set came with no instructions, so this was a huge help.
Great video. Almost didn't make it through the 30 second intro.
Thanks for this video. I had bought a "kit" of these extractors but didn't know how to use them. I have made a note based upon your instruction to tape into the lid of my "kit". That way if I ever need it, I will know how to use it as I won't trust my memory.
Thank you! Short and sweet and to the point. Great explanation!
Have a Fisher and Paykel top loader gas dryer that was making a screeching noise due to a bad bearing. The M5 allen bolt on the inside of the drum was frozen and I ended up rounding it so that nothing would work to get it out. Went to Lowe's and bought a SpeedOut kit and ended up using the largest of the extractors and followed the instructions to the letter. Reamed it first with the drill in reverse to at least 1/16" of an inch into the bolt and then flipped the bit and used the extractor. The 1/2" drill I was using didn't have the power to turn the bolt (only to bite the bit into the bolt), so I clamped on a Vise-Grips locking pliers to the extractor bit and gave it a very slow, hard turn. And sure enough, I heard a snap and that bolt came loose. The extractor was into the bolt deep enough so that the heavy 1/2" drill I was using was literally hanging from it, but it didn't have the torque to do break the bolt. But, the SpeedOut did do the job. Consider me impressed with the tool. It may not work in all circumstances, but it is definitely something to have in the toolkit when all else fails. For $10 and a trip to Lowe's, it saved the day.
Worked for me to my surprise. Made few tries and insisted a bit and ended up removing the screws.
I got this tool and was afraid it didn't work at all after a few attempts but I finally drilled deep enough and it worked, y'all!
thank you very much for this video. i was doing side 1 clockwise and didnt know why it was taking so long.
intro was a tad long i felt.
Thanks man I just bought these and now I know how to correctly use them
👍🙏Thank you sir! 💝 Thank you for helping all of us daddyless daughters out here. Daddy died before he could teach me about this stuff. It takes a village!! RIP daddy. 🙏🤗💞🤗
I got this a year ago, never use it, until yesterday, installing a toilet floor flange, messed up the head of one screw, bust out this tool, and it took 5 seconds to remove the broken screw! Should deff be in your kit ! 👍
Im glad I looked this video up, I def would have had the drill in normal drive mode if you hadnt made that clear when using the first bit! thank you!
What is "reverse" the unscrewing mode?
@@TheHoboWithAShotgun yep!
I did the side 1 bit, but the side 2 refuses to grip, it just spins inside the hole. Am I doing something wrong?
Try a different size.
U should turn left side 1 and 2
@@michaelxnightmare Could you please clarify what you mean by "turn left side 1 and 2" I'm about to buy a broken screw extractor set to take on a project of trying to remove a metal screw with whats left of a Phillips screw head and with my luck I'll have the same experience as commenter Avnish Anand who said that side 2 would not grip. You replied to him to "turn left side 1 and 2" since he was having trouble but I don't know what you meant. Thanks.
@@Brace67 I have the exact problem that you have.
He means have the drill on reverse when using the screw extractor bit, no matter which side you use.
THAT was clear, well done and thank you
+Jmichael Isbell Thank you!
I hate when people unlike this kind of video he works so hard to show you the way
me too!
Sohi
Hooshang Sohi I find the video very helpful. Haters gona hate any ways. Keep on the great work.
Well don't cry about it snowflake-
thats bcuz they still dont know how to use it,hahahahahaha
1. There are two levels of quality for this product. 2. Not much of a test mainly because the screw was not under a tensile load.
it was very helpful, but I missed the part were I guess you had used a metal screw first to gage the hole size. Then again if that was info OR demonstration that was needed to be shown. Might as well did for me!
Nice. It worked so well that now I can't remove the screw from the extraction bit.
Great video! Question: What can be done if the head of the crew has broken off. Will you use the same procedure or will there be an extra few steps. Please elaborate!
Hey, this is a 4 year old vid, but i'd follow the same procedure just making sure to not destroy the original threads / threaded insert
I had those hinge centering bits, and it worked like a dream!
I bought this and followed direction exactly and laughed when it did absolutely nothing. Not even close.
Me too...
Same. It's a piece of shit
You have to use an impact driver otherwise you get nothing. Took me awhile to figure it out myself.
You need to drill pretty deep for the extractor to be able to grab. The "boogering" of the screw he did at the beginning was more of a exercise in doing the drilling that's needed. That part of his video made the process misleading at best.
They is a better version of this tool that works. It's more like a backwards drill head that really snags the head of the bolt.
AWESOME INFORMATION in this video! You earned my subscription! Keep them coming! Do you take requests?
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I used side one multiple times, I used a drill bike to smooth out the burs and side 2 refuses to budge it.
I agree. It didn't even come close to working for me
You have to use an impact driver. A regular drill doesn't have enough torque.
I have those but didn’t know which side to spin the drill😞this video is what helped me take that bolt out!! Thanks👍🏼
Great worked a treat on a screw in my double glazed door which was rounded off so I couldn't
replace the Euro cylinder lock. Worked a treat
I bought a 4-piece set from Homedepot and it worked great with little drilling first. The teeth caught screws very well and the drill bit still stuck to a screw after I unscrewed it out. It took like 1 or so minute to unscrew one screw.
Thanks for sharing this video. I will give it a try tomorrow. I just got a similar screw extractor and i hope it works because I have a big deck full of old screws to remove and I noticed some/most are hard to get them out. THANKS
I was skeptical at first, but logically it made sense. I was working on the car with a stubborn and rounded out screw, picked up the craftsman screw extractor and took it out in less than a minute. totally worth it IMHO. it's possible in some scenarios it may not work, such as where you need to put significant amount of torque. just drill counterclockwise for both sides. make sure to get a good depth into the head of the screw before using the second part.
Just bought these guys and I'm gonna use these guys to get the bad guys out. Wish me luck guys, oh thanks to the guy in the video is the reason I bought these guys.
tried the screw extractors on a screw that was givin me headaches for quite a time now. At first it did not work, but i honestly forgot to put it on reverse. Well then it came out within a second with the Side 1 !
so it works, even with smaller screws, mine barely fit the smallest extractor i had in my set.
I have one of these kits in my tool bag, cheap to buy and got me out of a couple of situations with damaged screws on jobs
My extractor had no instructions. Great video thanks.
Just tried today. It worked like a magic!
FANTASTIC VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!
Explained and demonstrated it PERFECTLY.
thank you so much. it came out right away following your steps.
THE BEST DRILL OUT VIDEO ON TH-cam!!!!
these are my secret weapon on the job. other people struggle with other inferior extractors or methods and I walk in with my grabit kit. I've used them in an angle drill too and have had success in some of the most ridiculous and hard to reach places.
Thanks man. I just removed a screw with the help of this vid.
I needed to know this for my project i couldn't complete because the screws were stripped and i didnt have enough money to get extractors or even knew how to use them at the time
But is it worth getting extractor kit if the screws are very tight deep and the wood old? Like Rvs an MH have crappy specialty screws if pre 70s. Often damaged and if you pull you may take half a sheet of drywall and even a 1-2 inch ching from a stud!!! Wil you have to pressure to remove something so tight you cant manually even make it squeak more than once.
i used your method on aliexpress screw extractor and IT'S WORKED!! thanks :)
thks for ur vid,i just baught myself one of these and there was no instrucrion how to use it,so thx
1:22 short cut. Your welcome.
Thank you, that intro was killing me
2:15
Thank you Charles Watson!
I have a damaged screw on my dsi and to repair it from a broken LCD screen so this was not of help because where am i gonna find tiny screws to do this :(
I found that once you have used side 1 to smooth out the head, side 2 just spins around. You have to use side 2 of bit that is 1 size bigger , only then will the screw come out.
Very simple and great explanation. Thanks.
Skip to 2:15 to get to the point.
The basic air conditioner screw I am trying to get out totally outmatched the extractor bit. It could never get any kind of bite on the screw material. This method apparently depends on having used screws made of soft materials, which is not very useful or helpful if quality screws were used.
Great video. The reverse statement was the key to using the extractor! Thanks!
Thank you. Picking the size was a little confusing still for me but I got it. It worked for me but I tried the smallest bit first and it didn’t work so then I tried the second size and it worked!
Is a 30 second intro really needed for a 3 min video?
lol...true though.
Exactly!
Seriously only needed to be about a 30 second video max
When the proper part of the video starts at... 1:25
For mechanically incline, it should be 30 seconds. For novice like me, 3 min is exactly right.
Excellent demonstration! Thank you!
What about trying to put a bolt INTO the item
I’m using an Allen wrench and the hole is toast. I can’t drive the bolt in any further. Can I use this tool for continuing to insert the bolt??
Spent weeks trying to remove screws attached to stainless steel. I tried EZ Outs/Speed Outs, screw extractors, rubber bands, super glue, drill bits, gloves, and the only thing that worked was using a rotary tool with cutter (Harbor Freight $10) to cut a line/slit(Phillips flathead) in the center of the screw so an Impact Driver can hold onto the screw. My screw was too short and the material was very soft. Put painters tape on the screw before using an Impact Driver(Amazon $12). This was the only thing that worked for me. Hope this helps someone out there.
Youre a genius. Hope it works for me 👍
You did some of your work in "messing it up" having pieces of the socket in the head can be a big part of the work.
Sweet! these worked great!! Like the video says, I just had to make sure i was using the biggest size I could fit into the screw head
Good video and sounds simple. I tried to extract a screw, but the extractor end got stuck. When I applied more force, it broke off and I was left with a mess. I would recommend you to use screw extractors only if you know what you are doing, otherwise ask someone who does.
That worked on my Beretta M9. Thanks dude.
Unfortunately it did not work for me at all.
yep mine too. false advertising
I bought this product and didnt work.
Same here - nothing
Not even close
Thank you, very clear example of how to do this.
I have used the screw extractor many time . Works fantastic , especially in a drill press, if you can get the job in a drill press.
Great gear, and a must have for your tool kit
Do these work for bolts as well? For say, I do repairs etc for a laundromat. And the guys who did it before me used a drill and stripped almost every bolt on the washer and dryers and there impossible to get out. Right now I’m using drill bits and popping the heads off than using vice grips too get the bolt out. And it takes a good 5-10 minutes alone just too get the head too pop and I’m looking for a better and faster alternative
Wow, thank so much for showing me how to use a screw extractor. 🙂🙂🙂
If the screw needs a lot pressure to unscrew with this tool its a game over .It is useful in a small amount of pressure
Thanks for the simple tutorial!
how small of a damaged screw can the extractor remove
i just removed a very small one
the remover kits that have 4 or more pieces support a minimum of 2.4mm that i've seen.
I would have made some corny remark about Phillips head vs Robertson but those days are long gone now that Robertson has lost their patent and 'everyone' is making American Square Head screws w/ square sides vs the patented wedge shape.
Anyways, long story short - all the screws are crap now, not Robertson, cheap materials and strip or twist off at the first provocation.
Nice video, clear demonstration and pretty good sound quality even for this deaf old dog. Now that all my screws are screwed I'm going to have to get me some of these.
Thanks. Good job. I always wondered how that worked.
I use the first 30 seconds of this to annoy my neighbors!
Just fond it a bit creepy when you say you are coming at me.
I tried this tool...I went in reverse for both ends of tool. When reverse didnt work I tried forward on the "drill" end and reverse on the grabber end..still no luck. I went slow and I put pressure on the drill as instructions stated...no luck. Waste of money:( good video..thanks..at least I know I was doing it correctly:)
Ty. About to remove a stripped bolt on my truck.
skip the intro please
Love you man awesomely informative!!!!
great video and simple explanation.
so where do you put the screw ?
Just got back from a big box store and bought a set of 4 of these bits. Tried the smallest one on a brass screw that is stripped. Didn't work. Tried the next biggest size as recommended in the product box. Still didn't work. I'll chalk it up to the fact this screw is brass so it will not hold a good bite on any tool but if it's because I used a drill instead of an impact driver, I'll be beaked because the product package says all you need is a drill.
You're a life saver.
You're my spirit animal.
Do those break easy??? I got a 20 year old jeep that I was taking a T40 screw out and strip the head and now it’s all boogered up and idk what to do
KINDLY SHARE THE LINK WHERE YOU BUY THE EXTRACTOR TOOLS..
What can you do if you have a screw in plastic that you can turn with a screwdriver, but the threads are stripped a when you turn it counter-clockwise it just turns and turns without coming out?
for those still unable to remove stripped screws with the extractor set:
Use a larger sized extractor because the one you are using is too small
1. drill screw head with larger drill bit
2. use a grinding head and smooth out the larger hole. Otherwise the metal shavings will keep the extractor from biting into the screw metal
3. clean out the hole
4. Insert next larger sized extractor into hole
5. turn extractor COUNTER-CLOCKWISE
🎉🎉,
Tried that. Didn't work.
Would that work on a thumbscrew that snapped off n needs to b removed ? The part u would turn the cap I'll call it snapped off.