stripped screws
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RE: stripped screws
When you get ready to re-install the cover.....Anti seize on those screws!! You'll be happy for that the next time you need to remove the cover. Trust me. I learned this the hard way, and my derby cover has been on and off more often than a $10 hooker lately.
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RE: stripped screws
its an easy fix , like somebody already said use a 1/4 inch drill bit and just remove the head of the bolt. the problem is the bolts guald to the cover. when you get the heads drilled off and the cover removed you can more than likely turn the rest of the bolt out with your fingers . I have been down that road more than once finally I just went and got some good stainless steel allen head bolts and dont have that problem any more.
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RE: stripped screws
well, I FINALLY got the damn thing broke loose and had to really work on it to come out even once it was broke loose lol the threads were slam full of loctite.... it was everywhere. got the threads cleaned out and everything after a lot of work getting it broke loose. I'm sure my neighbors loved my hollars of joy when it finally popped loose....
tried a T25 torx bit hammered in there and it stuck for a short period and then stripped the hole a little bigger.... tried a larger allen bit hammered in there but no luck. tried hammering in a T27 torx bit but no luck there. then tried a set of screw extractors I got from work and those didn't do much more than chew away at the inside of the screw in very fine chunks. wasn't biting enough to actually grab, just widdling away more and more screw head lol
what ended up finally getting it was I sharpened the tip on one of my 1/2" flathead screwdrivers with hex shaft, took my dremel with a cutoff wheel, ground the cutoff wheel down until it was like 1/2" diameter, and cut a notch into the screw very carefully.... hammered in my 1/2" flathead and grabbed shaft with pair of channel locks and twisted while putting all the force I had holding the screwdriver blade into the notch.... FINALLY snapped loose lol all that loctite had it pretty well seized.
tried a T25 torx bit hammered in there and it stuck for a short period and then stripped the hole a little bigger.... tried a larger allen bit hammered in there but no luck. tried hammering in a T27 torx bit but no luck there. then tried a set of screw extractors I got from work and those didn't do much more than chew away at the inside of the screw in very fine chunks. wasn't biting enough to actually grab, just widdling away more and more screw head lol
what ended up finally getting it was I sharpened the tip on one of my 1/2" flathead screwdrivers with hex shaft, took my dremel with a cutoff wheel, ground the cutoff wheel down until it was like 1/2" diameter, and cut a notch into the screw very carefully.... hammered in my 1/2" flathead and grabbed shaft with pair of channel locks and twisted while putting all the force I had holding the screwdriver blade into the notch.... FINALLY snapped loose lol all that loctite had it pretty well seized.
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