[Shop-talk] Removing security screws

[RandE]

There are tools that will remove those screws.  The locksmith in a
department I worked with years ago had a tool like the one in this
article.  He didn't use it very often but it worked for him.
https://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/inffastener/infoneway.html

Here's another article with a better picture of the tool and a couple other
suggestions.  You might be able to cut a slot that a regular screwdriver
can grip.
https://www.insight-security.com/how-to-remove-one-way-screws

Randy


On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 8:42 PM Scott Hall <scott.hall.personal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> New house was a foreclosure.  It was 'secured' at some point.  One of the
> security features was locking sash latches in all the windows.  They did
> not leave a key to those locks.  The sash latches are secured with
> security/one-way screws that cannot just be unscrewed.
>
> They're also pretty hard and so close to the window pane itself that
> drilling them with a reverse drill bit isn't working.  And they're small
> enough that just grabbing them with a needle-nose vice grip isn't working
> either.
>
> Any advice before I do something stupid and screw up what we're some nice
> windows before the idiots got involved?
>
> Scott
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