In fact, he liked it so much that after our segment he decided to carry the Speed Out in his store in Cherry Creek. You could easily and quickly make the problem worse. He says stripped screws are a delicate but common issue that you don’t want to rush. Andy’s advice is to take your time and follow the instructions. Clearly it didn’t work in “10 seconds or less” as the commercial had promised but it worked none the less. None the less, when we jumped up a size it worked beautifully.Ĭarlson was happy with the results. It seemed as if the original bit drilled too big of a hole for the corresponding extractor side. Then, we jumped to a larger bit and used the extractor side. When we flipped the bit and tried to extract it, it wouldn’t budge.

We picked the appropriate sized Speed Out bit based on the instructions and drilled the hole in the screw head. Co-owner, Andy Carlson, setup a stripped out screw demo for us. We went to ACE Hardware in Cherry Creek to test it out. The instructions guide you through the process of picking the right size, drilling out a hole in the existing screw head and then using the B side to extract the screw from the hole. Side A is a drill and side B is the extractor. Speed Out, $20, is a set of 4 double-sided drill bits.

Speed Out promises to fix that with one simple tool. No matter what you do, you only seem to make the problem worse. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĭealing with a stripped screw can be very frustrating. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.

Speed out screw extractor