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Getting a damaged screw out

Only have the weller and don’t want to f*ck it up and its only a pointed tip anyway.

Reply to
Jac Brown
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Just grab the offending Scrivet with a nipping pliers and pop it out. They are installed by PUSHING the pin in - the threads are just to make it EASIER to remove

Reply to
Clare Snyder

Not possible, its recessed.

These ones arent. The outer end of what the screw goes into is threaded.

- the threads are just to

Reply to
Jac Brown

It's a security screw.  The manufacturer does not want that screw removed so they have made it impossible.  There are no user serviceable parts inside.  You'll need to take it to a factory authorized service center.

Reply to
M. Possabull

M. Possabull snipped-for-privacy@home.com wrote

No its not, its brother along the same edge came out fine because the philips head hole wasn’t damaged. That’s the one in the photo.

Yes there are, the windscreen washer bottle and pump for starters.

Wrong, as always.

Reply to
Jac Brown

No they wouldn’t and I have said that two of them will work, using an extractor and drilling the entire screw out.

There you go, face down in the mud, as always.

When I get around to it I will post a photo with it out. Like I said in the original, it isnt urgent, its just the windscreen washer bottle behind that panel that needs some attention.

Reply to
Jac Brown

With many of those you push the pin in further to release them. They are reusable after you reset the pin.

Reply to
rbowman

  Hey look guys , he's showing us his IQ ! You're just pissed because I called you out on your screwy troll . I may not be a professional mechanic like Clare , but I have maintained my own machinery (cars , trucks , motorcycles , electrical equipment , etc) for over 50 years - including motor and transmission rebuilds . Yesterday on the way home from an eye appointment in a city 50 miles away the alternator in our SUV died . I didn't post here asking for help , I bought a new unit and pulled out the repair manual for basic instructions . Then I pulled the old one and installed the new - all without help from the internet . And the only reason it took a whole hour of my time is because I spent 15 minutes fabricating and installing a new ground strap to replace a broken one . You're an idiot and a troll and I'm finished with you . Well , at least until you pop up under another fake nym with another stupid troll .
Reply to
Terry Coombs

You never could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

Nope, its hilarious watching you go face down in the mud, as always.

Me too, for rather longer than that. And designed and built my own very substantial passive solar house on a bare block of land too.

So did mine, on a much longer trip, in the previous Golf, more than 30 years ago.

Neither did I, because there was no internet then.

So did I. And there was no internet when I designed and built the house, I used the library and bought some of the more important design docs for the passive solar side of it.

And it turned out that asking on here about the scrivnut was a useful thing to do, particular with one of the links that Clare had posted that got me fiddling with the good one and discovered that you can just lever the screw out easily.

You're the idiot that is too stupid to even notice that I was in fact asking if anyone had a better approach than using an extractor and I did in fact get told about a better approach.

That’s not trolling, f****it child.

You have always been, and always will be, completely and utterly irrelevant.

<obscene gesture in Coombs' general direction>
Reply to
Jac Brown

I can't believe there are 76 posts about how to remove a plastic screw that you don't need to reuse.

Drill the sucker out. It's plastic, for goodness sake, you don't even need power tools. A hand drill would work, or even just a drill bit held in your fingers. I keep a coffee grinder style hand drill and a brace and bit style handy just for places where I don't need high power and or don't want to go find an extension cord.

Or get a propane torch and melt the head off. Everyone here (except the OP) could do this job faster than it takes to type one post.

Reply to
TimR

  Which is why I called him a trollin' muthafucka . You will notice that when I called him on it he quit posting ...
Reply to
Terry Coombs

Makes more sense to leaver the head up enough so the head can be grabbed with a pair of pliers. Much less work.

That will burn the plastic cover that its holding on.

But I got told about a better way that way, butcher.

More of your lies. I posted 5 times to Clare after you made such a spectacular fool of yourself.

Reply to
Jac Brown

TimR snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote

I already said that I couldn’t find a drill short enough to do that, the head points to the ground and even on a jack stand there isnt a lot of room between the head and the ground and I don’t have a hoist I can use.

Its even longer.

Much easier to lever the head up enough so you can grab it with a pair of pliers or and end nipper.

I got real radical and have a number of battery drills which work a lot better than those even if a decent amount of power is needed.

That’s going to damage the plastic panel it holds on.

But I did get a better way of doing it and can use that again when I need to.

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Rod Speed

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