Screw Extractor for tiny laptop screws?

Ron Hardin · 2008-10-07T08:00:55+00:00

I've stripped two of the screws holding the harddrive in my laptop (apparently lock-tite'd, from the crack! noise the other two made when unscrewed in my best philips screwing technique). (The chat agent on the line unhelpfully had just asked me to try removing the HD and memory, which is the rough equivalent in this model of ``remove roof and temporarily set aside'' for home repairs, as you have to remove the screen and keyboard to get at the memory. It must have been a little chat-agent joke. Anyway that project stopped when the screws stripped.)I take it the next step is a screw extractor, which I see too large a variety of to make a choice. What's the most probably successful kind of screw extractor? I have no experience with extractors. I'd experiment, but would like to get it done as neatly as possible on the first try.Very tiny philips screw. A 3/32 drill fits in the hole left by the other, removed, screws.

Oct 07, 2008 40 Replies

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Tekkie® 17 years ago

Ron Hardin posted for all of us...

Yes they have them at ACE Hardware. Heat it with a soldering iron as it's blue Loctite. A Dell?

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