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Some ideas:<br>
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- Use a rotary tool or hacksaw and cut a slot in the screwdriver to
use a regular flat blade screwdriver.<br>
- Take a file and file off two sides of the screw so the vice grips
can get a better bite on the screw head. If it is tight, you may
have to do this a second time so you essentially have a square
headed screw.<br>
- Drill progressively bigger holes in the head of the screw until it
comes off the pull off the latch then use vice grips on the screw
shaft.<br>
- Slice through the latch and cut off the screw head then use vice
grips on the screw shaft.<br>
- Use a small pair of curved jaw vice grips and clamp them as
absolutely tight as you can. Use a bit of 2x4 to push the vice
grips down as you tighten them and turn them to keep the vice grips
from riding up.<br>
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Good luck. Had to do this with window bars and a rusty security
door.<br>
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Brian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/21/2020 6:35 PM, Scott Hall
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">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.
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<div dir="auto">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. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Any advice before I do something stupid and
screw up what we're some nice windows before the idiots got
involved?</div>
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