My RV-8 front baggage area has lots of nut plates to hold the panels in. A friend's RV-8 had several stuck, or broken, number 8 screws in tight areas of this compartment. There is a elegant solution to this problem. Measure the drive area on the end of an 8-32 tap. Select a STEEL nut with a somewhat smaller thread pattern then this head and drill the threaded area out. Use a drill .004 or .005 inches smaller than the widest part of the drive head on the tap. Securely clamp the shaft of the tap in a vise, above the cutting threads, and gently hammer the modified nut onto the end of the tap. You now have a tool that will fit very close to the skin of the aircraft. Using a small ratchet and appropriate socket, run the tap into the nut plates to gently remove some of the locking action of the nut plate. Take it slow and be careful not to go too deep. A deep well socket seems to produce less side load on the fragile tap, and acts like a universal joint in operation.