Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1883 — How to Take Out Screws from Wood Work. [ARTICLE]

How to Take Out Screws from Wood Work.

One of the most simple and readiest methods for loosening a rusted screw is to apply heat to the head of the screw. A small bar or rod of iron, flat at the end if reddened at the fire and applied for a couple or three minutes to the head of the screw, will, as soon as it heats the screw, render its withdrawal with the screw-driver as easy as it it was a newly set screw. As there is a kitchen poker in every house, that instrument, if heated at its extremity, and applied for a. few minutes to rhe head of the screw or screws, and an ordinary screw-driver will do the rest, without causing the least trouble, damage or vexation of spirit. In all work above the common kind, where it is necessary to use screws, and particularly in hinge work and mountings, fancy fastenings and appliances affixed to joinery or furniture Work, we would advise the oiling of the screwsor thedipping of their points in grease before driving them. This will render them more easy to drive and also to withdraw, and it will undoubtedly retard the action of rust.