dont know why they make screw removal bits that break under just a tad of pressure fucking faggets. now im just gonna take this shit back into home depot every body loses. why not make a bit the same kinda steel as you would find in a screw driver.
at least the other screws didnt strip out of the shower faucet handle but gonna have to rig up some two by fours and spank it out they seem to be stuck on the stem my neegars, this is good man work no need for fagget bicep curls , just some good ole uncomfortable sitting on the edge of the tub and leaning and using that damn forearm strenth
I'm never quite exactly what you mean? but
If you're changing the washer, you did turn
on the faucet handle to unseat the stem (water off at main, of course) before wrenching the next part to remove the whole shabang and get to the washer, right? Lots of tension on the threads otherwise.
As to tool quality, there's a time to buy Ryobi, a time to buy Makita, and a time to buy Bridgeport and Precision Twist. Guys who insist you need to buy top quality all the time don't get that you match the tool to the job. A homeowner doesn't need a Festool to hang a picture (and he'd probably use a drill or driver bit from the 160 piece $50 set in it anyway, which is all he needs). A carpenter wouldn't use his finely tuned drop saw for rough framing work, so he has one for each task. Guys like Fenner are going to have a workshop full of the absolute best because he's working to the 1/2 thou" and doing it every day. It's ok to buy cheap as long as you understand the tool's limits. Only goofball homeowners think a chinese tool built to sell on dollar appeal at the bigbox hardware should compete on quality with something that costs 30x as much.
But imo this has little to do with metallurgy and cutting tool quality. Hey maybe it could have been better tempered but it was obviously hardened enough to cut in, grab on, and bind with force enough to snap itself under the driving force applied by...someone. An extractor isn't a solve-all. If the thing is loose already but you don't have a means of grabbing it then go for it. Otherwise get to the bottom of why it's fighting you, ideally before using your forearm strength to shear it off. Christ almighty, marty.
