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I broke a handful of screws on my Freddy while doing the tear down, even after heating them with a solder iron. I just tapped the t-nut through the playfield and put in a new one. I personally wouldn't waste time with a screw extractor that might work if it's just a t-nut that costs 35 cents or something.
Quoted from JayDee:Like Dent said, try an EZ Out first. But having to remove a ton of broken screws in my line of work I find they usually work 50% of the time. Most of the time I just go straight to drilling it out and re tapping. That usually works 90% of the time. The key is using the correct size bit for the tap size. They are usually metric sized bits so don’t use a standard bit from your drill set.
I don't recall ever seeing metric on a pinball machine. I can't speak for the newer boutique brands, I think one is manufactured overseas and is likely metric, but every game I've worked on has been SAE.
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