This resulted in breakage of parts, stripped screw heads and inoperable guns.

Loose or stripped screws in the dashboard may mean that the panel has been removed, an unlikely possibility in a brand new car.

If you have stripped screw holes for hinges, drawer hardware or other spots, you can fill the hole with toothpicks.

Tenacity, ingenuity, training: These words have popped up again and again in recent days as the astronauts have overcome frozen bolts, stripped screws, stuck handrails.

Innumerable times in her youth she had gone out in cold like this, with numb white chopped-up hands, and fought titanic battles to unscrew frozen or stripped screws. . . .

I have nothing against those amenities in literature, but if you use them you have to use them with conviction, not as the bent nails, stripped screws and dried-up wood glue in the bottom layer of the literary toolbox.

Amid glimpses of robotic machine tools cutting sheets of flexible materials into convoluted shapes, the presentation described a computerized central nervous system controlling every aspect of production, from the polishing of a seamless joint to the replacement of a stripped screw.