On Oct 7, 8:54*am, Ron Hardin wrote:
wrote:

On Oct 7, 6:35 am, Ron Hardin wrote:
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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Have you trying heating the screws with a small-tip soldering iron?
Heat should dissipate fast enough not to cause any damage to drive.
Otherwise, drilling-out would be another alternative.

I was thinking of heating up the screw exactor bit and using that, once
I settle on which extractor to use. *The screw is so short that I think
drilling to start an extractor is not possible; I'd need one that goes
from what's there or makes its own hole as necessary, I think.

I don't know that it was lock-tite'd, but the other two screws make the
lock-tite sound when they broke loose and unscrewed. *No visible residue
however.

I'd like to avoid putting metal shavings in the case but don't see how
to avoid it, since it's essentially laproscopic surgery to work on it.
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Sometimes they use a lacquer or similar stuff instead of LocTite...so
a little heat may help.
If the screws aren't brass...you could magnetize the bit to keep them
from scattering.