<div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 8:42 PM Scott Hall <<a href="mailto:scott.hall.personal@gmail.com">scott.hall.personal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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. <div dir="auto"><br></div><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><div dir="auto"><br></div><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><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Scott</div></div>
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