"mm" wrote in message
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He's ignored my suggestion of left handed bits, also.

No I did not. I do have one left handed bit and tried it but it did not
work. The one I had was a bit small however I thought the screw extractor
would have more bite but I think the brass was just too soft. One of the
things on the back of my mind was to try a bigger left hand bit if the
impact driver approach fails.

Thanks.

MC