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Message started by Bobster on 02/22/06 at 10:21:23

Title: Stripped out screw!!!
Post by Bobster on 02/22/06 at 10:21:23

:(.....I used the wrong size screwdriver on the first screw and stripped it. I was trying to do the white spacer mod. I guess i can try to drill it out from the bottom. Im very disappointed with myself. I know better than that. ::).....This is in the slide area.

Title: Re: Stripped out screw!!!
Post by Reelthing on 02/22/06 at 11:09:50

Sears has a new very handy version of the easy out for such things - has the drill bit on one end and the easyout on the other - works very well in a varible speed cordless drill - in low gear with just a touch on the trigger

unless you're talking about the tiny screws in the bottom of the slide?

Title: Re: Stripped out screw!!!
Post by Bobster on 02/22/06 at 13:32:30

Reelthing wrote:

Thats it, at the bottom of the slide

Title: Re: Stripped out screw!!!
Post by Ed_L. on 02/22/06 at 13:36:46

If your talking about one of the screws on the top of the carb get a small file and flatspot the sides of the head then get in there with a small pair of vice grips and try to loosen it, it worked on my carb. If it a screw on the slide maybe a tiny easy out will work. I've never had much luck drilling out small screws in aluminium, the bit wanders and messes up the hole. Luck with it

Title: Re: Stripped out screw!!!
Post by Bobster on 02/22/06 at 15:37:12

Ok, i drilled it out. Im straight now. ;D

Title: Re: Stripped out screw!!!
Post by Reelthing on 02/22/06 at 19:08:29

cool - them is number 1's down in there a 0 will eat their lunch - this is not news I bet - good job getting the little bastid out of there

Title: Re: Stripped out screw!!!
Post by Bobster on 02/22/06 at 19:13:30

Reelthing wrote:

cool - them is number 1's down in there a 0 will eat their lunch - this is not news I bet - good job getting the little bastid out of there

yea their size decieved me a bit. I beared down on it and felt it go. I knew i was in trouble then. :o... win some, lose some...

Title: Re: Stripped out screw!!!
Post by Reelthing on 02/22/06 at 20:52:25

for sure... the only way to not lose a few is to never do anything, tonight I was pulling the front and back wheels off to have some new me880s installed and in fact just stripped out one that holds the front of the belt guard on - thought I had a #3 in the power driver - not! buzzzzz - crap where's the vise grips - stainless allen head is going back

Title: Re: Stripped out screw!!!
Post by Savage_Rob on 02/23/06 at 05:25:31

Gotta love those stainless allens. I'll probably be putting them onto the float bowl of my Amal carb when I play with jetting. At least the top of the Amal is a twist-off cap with no fasteners.