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Default Extracting Plastic Screws With Broken Heads?

Oren wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:40:25 -0500, Arnie Goetchius
wrote:

My vinyl outdoor window blinds are fasten to the siding with plastic screws.
After a heavy wind the other night, one of the blinds was blown off because the
heads of the plastic screws snapped. I need to remove the headless plastic screws.

I have a screw extractor that I could use. Also, since the screws are plastic,
I could just drill them out. Any ideas on the best approach to extract the screws?


Depending on the wall construction, one option would be to punch the
screw in and allow it to fall into a wall cavity. YMMV

These blinds are on a garage window and I can easily see that the screws go into
a 2x4 so that would not work.