There's also super glue and duct tape  8{)>

Josh Welch <josh at joshwelch.com> wrote: 
I believe that this was intended for the list...
----- Forwarded message from sos at zjod.net -----
    Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:17:43 -0500 (CDT)
    From: Steve Siegfried 
Reply-To: Steve Siegfried 
Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Broke off screw head
      To: Josh Welch 

Josh Welch wrote:
>
> Joey Rockhold wrote:
> > I have a screw head that broke off on a hard drive.  Does anyone have
> > an easy trick to extract the rest of the screw out of the hard drive
> > without damaging the threads (or the hard drive for that matter).  It
> > is recessed in a little bit.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > - Joey
>
> I can't remember the real name, we called them easy outs when I was 
> working in the hardware business (hardware as in Home Depot, not as 
> in Microcenter). You drill a small hole in what remains of the screw 
> and wedge the easy out in that hole and use that to turn the screw 
> out. I'm not sure if they make them in a size small enough for your 
> use case, but it might be worth looking into.
>
> Josh

Or... you could just leave it there.  Most hard drives have 4 screw holes
to secure 'em to their mounting bracket.  Normally, two screws do the
job quite nicely (unless you subject the box to a lot of vibration by,
say, mounting it in the trunk of your car).

Once installed a drive using Velcro sticky tape and it's still working'idly,

-S


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