ransley wrote:

On Oct 7, 3:00 am, Ron Hardin wrote:
I've stripped two of the screws holding the hard
drive in my laptop (apparently lock-tite'd, from
the crack! noise the other two made when unscrewed
in my best philips screwing technique). (The chat
agent on the line unhelpfully had just asked me to
try removing the HD and memory, which is the rough
equivalent in this model of ``remove roof and
temporarily set aside'' for home repairs, as you
have to remove the screen and keyboard to get at
the memory. It must have been a little chat-agent
joke. Anyway that project stopped when the screws
stripped.)

I take it the next step is a screw extractor,
which I see too large a variety of to make a
choice. What's the most probably successful kind
of screw extractor? I have no experience with
extractors. I'd experiment, but would like to get
it done as neatly as possible on the first try.

Very tiny philips screw. A 3/32 drill fits in the
hole left by the other, removed, screws.
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If they are not broken but just stripped and cant catch a thread maybe
crazy glue the screwdriver to the screw then pull up to catch the
thread , use a bit of alcohol or laquer thinner to clean screw and
driver so they bond, or raise the screw with a knife while trying to
screw out to catch a thread first, since it wont come outr but turns
im guessing there is thread that just wont bite

It's the head I stripped. The threads are fine. I suspect it's
been lock-tite'd, causing the stripped head in the first place.
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