WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS
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Looking at this makes me physically ill
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If you do this you have two options. Either put a piece of rubber from a balloon, latex glove etc between the screw and the screwdriver. Or use a hacksaw to put a slot in the top of the screw and use a flathead screwdriver.
am i the only person with a set of screw extractor bits?
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am i the only person with a set of screw extractor bits?
I never even knew it was a thing. I'm assuming most people don't have them.
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If you do this you have two options. Either put a piece of rubber from a balloon, latex glove etc between the screw and the screwdriver. Or use a hacksaw to put a slot in the top of the screw and use a flathead screwdriver.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I thought all my stripped screw troubles would end when I found this tip and seeing how much it’s suggested. But all that ever happens is I pierce the gripping medium due to the force required. Maybe there is a quality option that can withstand this but I’m probably buying extractors if I’m spending money at that point.
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Pozidriv and Phillips are quite easy to tell apart imo
But JIS and Phillips blows
wrote on last edited by [email protected]JIS is much better than Phillps, as long as you have the exact matching driver.
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I bought a precision screwdriver set to replace the failing RAM on my thin lenovo laptop, which has super tiny screw on the ram slot, withing the first few turns of the screwdriver, I stripped that screw. Fucking thing would not budge, tried the rubber band trick, tried to even find somewhere I can borrow a dremel to cut a line on the head for a flat head, finally had to take it to the repair center at a Micro center and they somehow got it out. Never buying a thin laptop again, and will always check online for repair ability
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I never even knew it was a thing. I'm assuming most people don't have them.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Forklift Mechanic, here. It indeed is, a thing.
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Torx needs to become the standard for screws. They are just better in every way.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]A carbide set of torx bits make a great set of hex extractors. Hell, torx can sometimes be tapped into a drilled hole and turned. Half of the broken or sheared bolts I remove at the shop, I just use a torx bit.
When your bit is used to rescue bolts made with inferior bits, you know you've won.
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Where the hell do companies even find these super cheap, shitty screws that strip so easily? When I buy screws at a hardware store, they don't ever get stripped unless I use an impact hammer drill with the wrong size head and the screw is really stuck in something (and it sometimes also just twists and breaks the entire screw at that point). But screws already in a thing I bought almost always get stripped hella easy using a hand tool.
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i hope i don't need to do maintenance in my motorcycles front end again anytime soon. its gonna be a removed to remove those screws without ruining it.
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A carbide set of torx bits make a great set of hex extractors. Hell, torx can sometimes be tapped into a drilled hole and turned. Half of the broken or sheared bolts I remove at the shop, I just use a torx bit.
When your bit is used to rescue bolts made with inferior bits, you know you've won.
Holy shit, someone who does it as well! Torx bits are so useful for this, I have a fairly high success rate even on the tiny terrible electronics screws I usually work on.
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I never even knew it was a thing. I'm assuming most people don't have them.
I see sales for them all the time at hardware stores.
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Torx ftw
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Canadian look of superiority
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Use JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) screwdriver and bits. If you own a Japanese automobile, motorcycle, etc., you better use them.
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Bummer. Mobile using the Voyager app, if anyone else has the same issue.
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I hate Phillips screws. For this very reason.
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“Failed to load media”
Bummer. Mobile using the Voyager app, if anyone else has the same issue.
Same, but mine loaded fine. Android.
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Use JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) screwdriver and bits. If you own a Japanese automobile, motorcycle, etc., you better use them.
JIS is definitely a step up from Phillips, as long as you have the right bits and can tell them apart. I run into JIS a lot in bicycle maintenance. But neither of them hold a candle to metric hex. It's really hard to strip a hex bit until you're being a total idiot.
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I bought a precision screwdriver set to replace the failing RAM on my thin lenovo laptop, which has super tiny screw on the ram slot, withing the first few turns of the screwdriver, I stripped that screw. Fucking thing would not budge, tried the rubber band trick, tried to even find somewhere I can borrow a dremel to cut a line on the head for a flat head, finally had to take it to the repair center at a Micro center and they somehow got it out. Never buying a thin laptop again, and will always check online for repair ability
https://www.harborfreight.com/spring-loaded-center-punch-621.html
I've had to use this quite a few times on laptop repairs cuz the oem used way too much lock-tite. The trick is to use the point at about a 45 angle toward the outside of the head, impacting in the direction it would turn to loosen. Just be careful it doesn't slip off and cause more damage. The hardened tip can also be used to cut out a wider cut to maybe fit a small flat head in too.
