How to Loosen a Tight Screw to Remove Kitchen Cabinets

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How to Unscrew Tight Screws | eHow More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by Cevranath | permalink
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Loosening a stuck screw can be a frustrating challenge, but you can do it if you get creative with your tools.

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how_7498909_unscrew-tight-screws.html ^[1]

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How to remove soft screws without stripping the heads? More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by andrew levine | permalink
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How can I remove old screws when the heads keep getting stripped?

For further reading: http://ask.metafilter.com/148039/How-to-remove-soft-screws-without-stripping-the-heads ^[2]

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Loosening a Stuck Nut More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by No Do | permalink
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How to solve a common faucet-removal problem.
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For further reading: http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/skill-builder/0,,1194710,00.html ^[3]

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How do you remove painted, striped screws off old cabinet doors? More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by Janet Kelly - De Young | permalink
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How do you remove painted, striped screws off old cabinet doors? - I am trying to remove the cabinet doors to my tiny laundry room. It's so closed in and though…

For further reading: http://www.hometalk.com/2148910/q-how-do-you-remove-painted-striped-screws-off-old-cabinet-doors ^[4]

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The 12 Best Ways to Remove Stripped Screws More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by Jan Hartley | permalink
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Today I found out twelve ways to remove a stripped screw. We’ve all been there; trying to void a warranty or otherwise take something apart and you go to take that one last screw off and invariably it strips. Now what? You can either A: Think Hammer… really, really big hammer; or B: Read the list below and pick the [...]

For further reading: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/02/the-12-best-ways-to-remove-stripped-screws/ ^[5]

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Remove Stripped Screw More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by Tom Goguen | permalink
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Discover thousands of images about Remove Stripped Screw on Pinterest, a visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save creative ideas.

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Removing broken screw with no head on it More
Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago by Edward Gardner | permalink
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Okay, I did something not too bright. I was drilling a screw into a solid oak cabinet for door hardware, and I didn't drill a pilot hold first. The screw, which is fairly small, broke off in the wood; the phillips head broke off leaving the body of the screw embedded in the wood. There is about 1/8 ...
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For further reading: http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2595457/removing-broken-screw-with-no-head-on-it ^[7]

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1. http://www.ehow.com/how_7498909_unscrew-tight-screws.html

2. http://ask.metafilter.com/148039/How-to-remove-soft-screws-without-stripping-the-heads

3. http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/skill-builder/0,,1194710,00.html

4. http://www.hometalk.com/2148910/q-how-do-you-remove-painted-striped-screws-off-old-cabinet-doors

5. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/02/the-12-best-ways-to-remove-stripped-screws/

6. https://www.pinterest.com/explore/remove-stripped-screw/

7. http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2595457/removing-broken-screw-with-no-head-on-it