@Waggstar
What model & year bike do you have? There’s a DTX carb body for sale on fleabay for £50 (I think) if you have a dtr they can be year sensitive…
Even if you have fucked up removing the air screw there are places out there that will drill out and rethread your original carb body for under £50. It depends what damage you’ve done to the threads. The brass screw can be removed even if you’ve destroyed the flathead screwdriver slot…
It’s all comparative…
I had a slot that stripped, I just drilled it 3mm deep with a 3mm drill bit and tapped a sharp cross head screwdriver into it. Heated it with a gas torch and it came out easy…