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I'm trying to deal with small Torx screws on a drive case. They're
about T8, maybe T7. Tough to tell cause the screws are 'pre-stripped.' In other words, there's not much edge for a Torx driver to grip them. They almost look like rounded allen-head screws. I'm trying to figure out how to deal with them. These are not the tamper-proof variety, so I don't need a hollow-point Torx driver (if they even make them that small). The first thing that occurred to me was to place a small Torx driver in the holes and tap the end lightly with a mallet. That could do more harm than good though, as this looks like very soft metal. It's also a working disk drive case, so I don't want to damage the drive. I could try a tiny screw extractor, but the risk is that it wouldn't work and then the remainder of the screw would really jam things up. Any other ideas? |
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