Drill it out, shoot in an extractor, or if you’re lucky, 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 ...

Enter a seasoned DIYer’s go-to tool: a screw extractor. While the specific design of this inexpensive implement varies, it most commonly takes the form of a tapered drill bit with a reversed thread.