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Re: [Shop-talk] Removing security screws

To: Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Removing security screws
From: John Innis <jdinnis@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:00:32 -0500
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How are your welding skills?  If the screw is steel, and you have a mig
welder, you can weld a nut onto the head of the screw and remove it quite
easily.  THe trick here is to choose a nut whose inside diameter is just
slightly larger than the crew head.  This gives you a very nice little cup
to weld in.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 8:42 PM Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal@gmail.com>
wrote:

> New house was a foreclosure.  It was 'secured' at some point.  One of the
> security features was locking sash latches in all the windows.  They did
> not leave a key to those locks.  The sash latches are secured with
> security/one-way screws that cannot just be unscrewed.
>
> They're also pretty hard and so close to the window pane itself that
> drilling them with a reverse drill bit isn't working.  And they're small
> enough that just grabbing them with a needle-nose vice grip isn't working
> either.
>
> Any advice before I do something stupid and screw up what we're some nice
> windows before the idiots got involved?
>
> Scott
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<div dir=3D"ltr">How are your welding skills?=C2=A0 If the screw is steel, =
and you have a mig welder, you can weld a nut onto the head of the screw an=
d remove it quite easily.=C2=A0 THe trick here is to choose a nut whose ins=
ide diameter is just slightly larger than the crew head.=C2=A0 This gives y=
ou a very nice little cup to weld in.<br></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quot=
e"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 8:42 PM Sc=
ott Hall &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:scott.hall.personal@gmail.com";>scott.hall.pe=
rsonal@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" =
style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);pa=
dding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"auto">New house was a foreclosure.=C2=A0 It was=
 &#39;secured&#39; at some point.=C2=A0 One of the security features was lo=
cking sash latches in all the windows.=C2=A0 They did not leave a key to th=
ose locks.=C2=A0 The sash latches are secured with security/one-way screws =
that cannot just be unscrewed.=C2=A0=C2=A0<div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div =
dir=3D"auto">They&#39;re also pretty hard and so close to the window pane i=
tself that drilling them with a reverse drill bit isn&#39;t working.=C2=A0 =
And they&#39;re small enough that just grabbing them with a needle-nose vic=
e grip isn&#39;t working either.=C2=A0=C2=A0</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></d=
iv><div dir=3D"auto">Any advice before I do something stupid and screw up w=
hat we&#39;re some nice windows before the idiots got involved?</div><div d=
ir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Scott</div></div>
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