Can you clean carbs without taking them apart?

[Turbowaffle]

I was planning cleaning my carbs but ran into a problem. I stripped the head of one of the screws on the holds the bottom of the float bowl cover.  I went to use my screw extracter and the tip broke off in the screw  :x . I don't know how much luck I'll have removing that screw now, and I wanted to see if there's a way I can rinse out my carbs without taking them apart.

[tmc008]

use needle nose vise grips, they'll come off just fine.  

[The Buddha]

Use a left handed drill...or soak carbs in 2 gallons of gas and a pint of yamaha carb cleaner and some squirts of penetrating liquid......swirl it often and take it out and dry it...should be clean enough to eat off..But remove the screws...
Cool.
Srinath.

[Turbowaffle]

The needle nose vise grips worked! Now on to the cleaning