This is the best suggestion on the thread. I've used these myself for years
and they work great. They're hardened steel and last quite a while. If you
don't want to drill over the screw shank full-length, just go down a
quarter-inch or so, grab the shank of the screw with needle-nose pliers and
twist it out. After you have the screw out, and if you've centered the drill
over the broken-off screw pretty well, the hole ends up well-sized to take a
plug. Glue in a plug, re-drill it, and use some lubricant on the next screw
you put in there. Brass is very soft. McFeely sells something they call
Ackempucky for lubricating screws and it got good reviews in the mags such
as American Woodworker. The old timers just used soap.

Tom Dacon

"JeffB" wrote in message
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There are drills like this:
http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product...erings_id=2354
or you can try to make a similar thing out of a piece of tubing. Then plug
the hole with a dowel, and drill the pilot hole again. This time - and
every time when using brass screws, thread a steel screw in the hole first
to cut the threads in the wood, then install the brass screw.
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JeffB
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