Snapped brass screw head off

[Matt Day]

I tried the cutting-a-slot approach and no luck with soft brass screws. Being a small #6 didn't help. I've done the slot technique on bolts many times before, but not little screws like this.

I picked up the screw extractor as suggested and will try it when I get home.

[Matt Day]

I tried the screw extractor last night and it worked perfect! I was surprised how well it worked and how clean a hole it left. I drilled a 1/4" through hole in a piece of 3/4" hard maple as a guide, used that to sight the broken screw and gently centered it on the screw, clamped it down, measured the proper depth of cut and set the extractor accordingly, put the hand drill on reverse, and slowly went at it. While drilling, one of them kind of popped to let me know it was out. I inserted a drill be the same diameter of the inside fo the extractor to push out the screw from the extractor.

I used a 1/4" plug cutter to make the plug to fill the hole with some glue.

Thanks for the suggestion!

$10 well spent.