Few things will try your patience the way a stripped screw or bolt can. But here’s how you can get so good at it, you almost look forward to the challenge.

If your project requires many sizes of nuts and bolts, using one tool instead of several could save you time and money. The adjustable wrench does have some downsides, however.

We suggest you tighten the nut, bolt, or machine screw by hand until it makes contact with the washer or the surface of the workpiece. Then, using an adjustable wrench or a socket wrench ...

The differential screw in this case started life as a normal M5 bolt with a 0.8 mm thread pitch. [Mark] machined and threaded section of the bolt down to a M4 x 0.7 mm thread.