I am making some builtin cabinets. I started putting on 3 1/2" Gatehouse brass door hinges on. One was not right so I started to back out I had a very hard time getting 3 of them out. One would not come out at all and is still in the wood. The reason they were hard or would not come out is because they were defective. The Phillips screwdriver it would only go in no more than 1/16". I looked at the screw heads and it looks like the notches are filled with glue and the glue hardened so I could not grip into the heads. I am not saying it is glue but i could not get the screw bits into the heads. I tried to drill the last one out and broke a titanium bit.. I used a brand new bit and drilled and drilled and drilled for at least 10 minutes and I may be in 1/8"/ I am using a Milwaukee 1/2" drill and I have used it on steel before. This is brass so I thought it would be easier to drill out. I also used an Alden screw extractor a nd the end just spins in the hole. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get it out?
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