Any electricians on board? (A question with a picture)

[QIS]

Just use a drill that's smaller than the screw and drill into the screw. The screw may advance into the box and it might not. If it does it might go in far enough so that you can just use another similar screw, if it stops then you can drill into the present screw and maybe you can use a larger drill and make a hole large enough for a different screw. Please let us know how you do it!

[turf3]

Originally Posted by QIS

Just use a drill that's smaller than the screw and drill into the screw. The screw may advance into the box and it might not. If it does it might go in far enough so that you can just use another similar screw, if it stops then you can drill into the present screw and maybe you can use a larger drill and make a hole large enough for a different screw. Please let us know how you do it!

Have you ever successfully drilled out a broken #6 screw, that's 3/4" long, and buried in something as soft as plastic? Good luck with that. After the drill jumps off the broken end of the screw and buries itself in the plastic box, or the wires inside the box, then you can break up the box, yank it out, and replace it with an old work box.

[ysr_racer]

A #6 screw is about the same diameter as the lead in a number #2 pencil. There's no way to drill it out.

I'm going to try to nip away the plastic, then grab what's left.

[ysr_racer]

I was just ****ing with you guys. My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.