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Getting a damaged screw out
Got one of these
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0mcpg949t9..._2208.JPG?dl=0 with a badly damaged philips screw head which I can't get out of here. https://youtu.be/XlYNf101RJ0?t=56 The thing is entirely plastic in two parts. I don't care about wrecking the whole screw and what it goes into because I am happy to replace it. I'd normally just grab the head with some mole grips etc but cant get the screw unscrewed enough to get a grip on the head, No easy access to cut a slot in the head and use a flat screw driver. Guess it might be feasible with a dremel with a cutting disk. I have both. My initial thought was a screw extractor/easy out but the don't really go small enough. The threaded part is only 5.5mm thick. The smallest screw extractor is listed as 3mm which might well work with a hole drilled into where the philips slots used to be. The other possibility is to glue a plastic rod to the head but I don't have a rod of the same plastic and there is no obvious way to work out what the plastic is to order a rod of the same plastic and glue. Is one particular type of plastic normally used on those things ? I guess superglue and metal rod might work. Any other alternative I might be having a brain fart about before I order the smallest screw extractor ? Not urgent, there is some problem with the windscreen washer bottle that means it holds very little water but its fine to do without a washer for a month or two while the extractor arrives. |
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