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Lyman call me and said it would cost me $68.00 if I wanted the mold and handles back. They said the mold was over 20 years old and were miss treated abused and weren't fix able.
Am I reading this right? Lyman wanted $68.00 to look at your mould, refuse to fix it, and send it back? They kept your mould and handles?
If that's the case, I'da filed a complaint with the State Attorney General, State Corporation Commission, the Postal Inspectors, the Better Business Bureau and anyone else I could think of. Wouldn't expect any results, but I would hope to cost them a couple of grand in lost time dealing with those folks.
I replace wood without even bothering to take the handles off the blocks, and it's a mighty rare screw I can't get out. Even drilling a screw out and retapping is only about a $20 job. I can't imagine a screw that had only been in place a few months being stuck too tight to get out.
Just for future reference, at the first sign of burring, you stop and clamp what you are working on on the drill press table, grind one of the interchangeable bits to an exact fit, put it in an extension and chuck the extension. Apply hard downward pressure with the press and back the screw out with a wrench on the extension. This will get any screw that is not absolutely rusted solid. If it's rusted solid, it'll pop the head of so you can start drilling.