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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:20:55 GMT, (Bob) wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:41:52 GMT, "old jon"
wrote:
Heating the screw with a soldering iron will help to free it, if you can
devise a method of turning it.
No. Heating the screw will make it expand, which will make it harder
to extract.
Sears has screw extractors. Get the kind for screws that cannot be
drilled - the one that fits over the head of the screw and has
left-handed protrusions inside which grip the screw.
Go easy or you will snap the screw off. You should soak the threads in
anti-seize liquid like WD-40 overnight to help ease the unscrewing.
SInce the heads on these screws are probably protruding
above the casing, a high-tolernace pair of needle-nose
pliers might be used to turn them. Other alternatives
include using a high acid silver solder plus a clean torx
bit, soldering the torx bit into the screw head (Or at least
making an impression of the screw head even if they dont'
mechanically join.
I have to wonder what gain there is in getting these screws
out though, if the drive is scrap anyway and they can't RMA
it, then maybe using a drill press to drill the head off is
enough.
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