Thread: Over-torqued screws

My interpretation is that the head of a socket head screw has separated from the shank, if you have been able to remove the shank from lower half of the ring it should simply be a matter of fitting a new screw, the screw has failed, not the threads in the ring body. Before assembly you should try the new screw in the same hole and confirm that it is not bottoming in the hole (if it is a blind hole) or binding in incompletely formed threads in the bottom of the hole as either type of obstruction could be the cause of your problem. If the screw separated while fully seated in the hole then it was possibly just a faulty screw and simply a matter of replacement. Either way it doesn't sound like the threads will have been damaged.