If a larger bolt breaks off with a decent portion ... continue enlarging it with bigger and bigger drill bits until the hole is just slightly smaller than the extraction tool you plan to use.

Breaking a stud or a bolt is a pretty common shop catastrophe ... clamp on some Vise-Grips and hope for the best. But when a drill bit breaks off flush in a hole, there aren’t a lot of options ...

There's nothing worse for a DIYer than throwing away a perfectly good piece of wood because you made a drilling mistake. Pilot holes help prevent that. Pilot holes are drilled into a piece of ...