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How to fix a stripped screw?

A plethora of solutions to remove a stripped screw: screw extractor, grinding a line in the head, vice grip, plier, even superglue.

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Published December 30, 2020
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Published on Wed 30th Dec 2020. Featured in KBD #7 (source).

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