I have many professional audio recorders. The stand screws are pretty awful and the heads break off easily and often. I bought one of those double ended screw extraction kits and it worked about 10% of the time. I saw a video online of someone using a "left hand drill" to remove a stripped screw so I went with this kit. The first attempt didn't work. I went up to the next size up and the screw just came out. It happens right in my studio toolbox.