Stripped Torx screws

_ZZ · 2005-07-05T06:57:00+00:00

I'm trying to deal with small Torx screws on a drive case. They'reabout T8, maybe T7. Tough to tell cause the screws are'pre-stripped.' In other words, there's not much edge for a Torxdriver to grip them. They almost look like rounded allen-head screws.I'm trying to figure out how to deal with them.These are not the tamper-proof variety, so I don't need a hollow-pointTorx driver (if they even make them that small).The first thing that occurred to me was to place a small Torx driverin the holes and tap the end lightly with a mallet. That could domore harm than good though, as this looks like very soft metal. It'salso a working disk drive case, so I don't want to damage the drive.I could try a tiny screw extractor, but the risk is that it wouldn'twork and then the remainder of the screw would really jam things up.Any other ideas?

Jul 05, 2005 41 Replies

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Notan 20 years ago

Personally, I like the idea of epoxying something to the head of the screw, rather than using heat.

Whatever you decide, be sure to let us know what you came up with... None of us are ever too old to learn something new.

Good Luck!

Notan

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kony 20 years ago

yes but I have no idea, I"d already deleted the rest of the thread and too lazy to go hunt it down again. In any case, it should not damage a drive as those are encased in metal, it'd be a problem if the screw was in a plastic casing though I'd be surprised if the screw was very hard to get out of a plastic casing so I suppose I'd assumed metal.

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