Hi,
I have a laptop here with a stripped screw and that screw is vital to the disassembly of the laptop (holds bottom casing to the dvd drive and dvd drive to motherboard).
Should I attempt to drill it out or is there a safer way to do this?
Is there nothing I can do?
Originally posted by sammorris: yeah, as in get it to start moving round by exerting some force somehow, then do the rest with your fingers...
well, there was no space around the screw itself...
so.......i made some!
I broke plastic around it on one end and then shoved a flat head sideways...well, i guess we wont have a screw to secure the dvd-drive....but its not like its gonna fall out or anything.
To say the least, I did some pretty damage to the base of this laptop but at least I got it open (needed to replace the motherboard), so if I didn't open it, it would have ended up in the trash anyways.
And I really don't like throwing away mobile Core 2 Duo's out, HEHE.
Thank you very much for the great idea and you may have just saved me a laptop!
Originally posted by sammorris: No problem, hope it all works out - try to be more careful this time eh? :)
yes, hehe
@ddp
no, it was really small (less than 1mm in diameter) so i dont think a screw extractor would have worked....
in any case, the laptop looks fine from the outside (i wet sanded it a bit and rounded the edge)...
