I have exhausted the internet looking for a tool, and I'm beginning to think I dreamed of it. I was just about to give up and thought to myself, "Hey, if this thing exists somebody on OTT has used one before and knows what it is called."
I'm in the midst of tearing off old rotted deck boards. They were screwed in with 3" phillips head screws. No surprise here, the screw heads are filled with layers of paint and dirt. The screws that weren't stripped on install are stripping or breaking off the head on every board leaving 1" exposed.
I've had limited success getting the shaft of a broken or cut off screw in my drill chuck tight enough to back them out, but on a 40x18 deck I don't want to do that on every screw. If they do not come out they grind the chuck tapers pretty quickly. I could sit there with vise grips I suppose, but ugh, that doesn't exactly sound like a party I want to go to either. I don't want to cut that many of them off and leave them in the joists for fear of the new screws finding them instead of wood.
Here is the question: Is there a drill bit or attachment for a drill that tightens around a shaft as it reverses? I'm envisioning a self-tightening or ratcheting clamping action. In my mind, it would function like a chuck when you hold the collar. The tapers would ride a spiral guide extending until they made contact and getting progressively tighter until the screw backed out.
I'm in the midst of tearing off old rotted deck boards. They were screwed in with 3" phillips head screws. No surprise here, the screw heads are filled with layers of paint and dirt. The screws that weren't stripped on install are stripping or breaking off the head on every board leaving 1" exposed.
I've had limited success getting the shaft of a broken or cut off screw in my drill chuck tight enough to back them out, but on a 40x18 deck I don't want to do that on every screw. If they do not come out they grind the chuck tapers pretty quickly. I could sit there with vise grips I suppose, but ugh, that doesn't exactly sound like a party I want to go to either. I don't want to cut that many of them off and leave them in the joists for fear of the new screws finding them instead of wood.
Here is the question: Is there a drill bit or attachment for a drill that tightens around a shaft as it reverses? I'm envisioning a self-tightening or ratcheting clamping action. In my mind, it would function like a chuck when you hold the collar. The tapers would ride a spiral guide extending until they made contact and getting progressively tighter until the screw backed out.
