Filipinomonk
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2025
Terrible item. Does not work. In fact, the screws were made of harder metal than the extractor set, leaving the extractors stripped and damaged. Don't waste your money on this. Buy a real set of extractors.
Igor Tchmil
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2025
Was struggling to drill the hole with the drill bit provided, and the extractor #10 broke off inside the hole when extracting in reverse...
Mike
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2025
Used to remove stripped scope base screws, worked great and took the screws right out!
Mark E. Graham
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2024
This kit worked well to remove some stripped laptop screws. There are both drill thru bits and extractor bits in the kit. Using first a drill thru bit and then an extractor bit (both fitted into a power drill), I was able to remove the stripped screws. There are lots of DIY YouTube videos for more details
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
I had a number of M3 flat head screws liberaly slathered with thread locker and with Philips heads that no driver or bit would properly engage. I got three out by finding one off-spec Phillips bit that did engage with no slop, heads were ruined, was going to replace them all anyway. I found this set online with generally good reviews, came in today. I drilled all 4 remaining screws and three backed right out, the supplied drills worked fine, really soft hardware. First one didn't make it, drilled a little too deeply, tore the head right off. So that one gets drilled and maybe the thread remains picked out using dental tools, otherwise gets a tap run in. These are short screws, 4-6mm, and no hardware store extractor is going to work. Flush with the cover plates, no way to grab them with pliers or vise grips. Comes in a very nice locking plastic box, everything is labeled on the foam bit holder. Bits themselves have no markings. Needs some experimentation to see which bit combination works best. Tearing the head off the one screw didn't keep me from pulling the cover, other screw came right out. So I could make the needed adjustment. Couldn't have done it without this set. One star off for no size markings on the bits. But nothing broken, have always broken screw extractors when removing busted bolts.
Nikkithegreek
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
You know when you are almost done with a project and that one last screw doesn't go all the way in and bam you stripped it. Dang it! All stop! Not the first time this has happened to me and no easy fix in sight. I finally broke down and ordered this kit on amazon, arrived the next day. Used the correct size bits for the screw and to my amazement and elation IT WORKED first time out! I was elated! Haza! Now I have this handy dandy little kit for the next time I strip a screw, and yes it will most definitely happen again with my luck. Go an buy yourself this kit, even if you don't need all the sizes now, you will eventually so spring for them all now, you will be glad you did when you are down to that last screw and you strip it and it comes down to going out in your grubby cloths to the hardware store to get that one screw extractor or just trotting out to your garage for the one in your kit. Trust me you will be glad you have it already. Happy Screwing!
J. Friend
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2023
This saved us on a laptop repair. We bought a new battery for a laptop, but two of the screws holding the back cover on had stripped heads (using a star-type driver) - probably due to prior work on the laptop. We drilled out the head about 1/8" deep to the exact size for one of the screw extractors and then put the extractor in the drill and backed out the screw very slowly. It worked. Then, used new screws when putting it back together. Then, not 8 hours later, I was trying to replace a Garmin watch band and couldn't get one of the screws out and used the appropriate sized extractor and the screw came right out without even drilling it first.The whole set seems very well made and covers everything from tiny watch or laptop screws up to much larger screws.
S. Lopez
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2022
Overall, it didn't work for me. I was drilling into a screw shaft after the head broke off. It was inside an old plastic electrical box screw hole.Pros: Nice packaging, very nice case to prevent these from getting lost or misplaced. Clear labeling inside the case.Cons: Unsure of the screw material I was drilling into, but it was stronger than the bits' material. As you can hopefully see in my second picture, it misshaped the drill threads instead of taking more material out of the screw. So I was unable to extract the screw and instead shaved the plastic around the screw and used vice grips once it was exposed. The instructions were also unclear and confusing. Mine actually did not come with the instructions I saw on someone's video of the product. I looked at the listing, and the bits were mislabeled, it wasn't clear which direction to use the drill. Then I searched how-to videos for other extractor sets and used the drill in reverse for both drilling and extraction. I then tried the drilling bit with the forward function of the drill, that didn't work very well either. The magnet for the extension bit holder is also very weak, which leads the bit to wobble while drilling and degrades the performance of the tool.