So I was trying to remove one of the screws from the quarter rib on my Ruger #1S in .45-70 the other day in order to install some sights on it, and I stripped the screw. I was working on a couple of my other #1 rifles and managed to strip a few more of the same type of screw on my #1A and my #1H. I used several different allen wrenches of the correct size, but there is just something wrong with those screws.
Well, not to be outdone, I ordered a set of screw extractors from Midway USA. They arrived today and I was having no problems getting these stripped screws out of the quarter ribs, when the screw extractor snapped off in one of the screws on the #1S.
So now I have a piece of hardened steel stuck in the center of a screw that I cannot get out. Being angry and not thinking straight, I kept trying to drill the hole just a little bigger and use a bigger extractor hoping it would catch. No luck.
Some of the screw head is still there and up to this point no damage has been done to the threads or quarter rib. Any suggestions? I'm about out of ideas, and yes I feel very stupid.
The big problem here is that if I damage the threads holding the quarter rib on then I am damaging a part of the barrel.
Well, not to be outdone, I ordered a set of screw extractors from Midway USA. They arrived today and I was having no problems getting these stripped screws out of the quarter ribs, when the screw extractor snapped off in one of the screws on the #1S.
So now I have a piece of hardened steel stuck in the center of a screw that I cannot get out. Being angry and not thinking straight, I kept trying to drill the hole just a little bigger and use a bigger extractor hoping it would catch. No luck.
Some of the screw head is still there and up to this point no damage has been done to the threads or quarter rib. Any suggestions? I'm about out of ideas, and yes I feel very stupid.
The big problem here is that if I damage the threads holding the quarter rib on then I am damaging a part of the barrel.