There's also super glue and duct tape 8{)><br><br><b><i>Josh Welch <josh@joshwelch.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br>I believe that this was intended for the list...<br>----- Forwarded message from sos@zjod.net -----<br> Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:17:43 -0500 (CDT)<br> From: Steve Siegfried <sos@zjod.net><br>Reply-To: Steve Siegfried <sos@zjod.net><br>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Broke off screw head<br> To: Josh Welch <josh@joshwelch.com><br><br>Josh Welch wrote:<br>><br>> Joey Rockhold wrote:<br>> > I have a screw head that broke off on a hard drive. Does anyone have<br>> > an easy trick to extract the rest of the screw out of the hard drive<br>> > without damaging the threads (or the hard drive for that matter). It<br>> > is recessed in a little bit.<br>> ><br>> > Thanks for the help.<br>> ><br>>
> - Joey<br>><br>> I can't remember the real name, we called them easy outs when I was <br>> working in the hardware business (hardware as in Home Depot, not as <br>> in Microcenter). You drill a small hole in what remains of the screw <br>> and wedge the easy out in that hole and use that to turn the screw <br>> out. I'm not sure if they make them in a size small enough for your <br>> use case, but it might be worth looking into.<br>><br>> Josh<br><br>Or... you could just leave it there. Most hard drives have 4 screw holes<br>to secure 'em to their mounting bracket. Normally, two screws do the<br>job quite nicely (unless you subject the box to a lot of vibration by,<br>say, mounting it in the trunk of your car).<br><br>Once installed a drive using Velcro sticky tape and it's still working'idly,<br><br>-S<br><br><br>----- End forwarded message -----<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List -
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