Indeed. If using a knife is too scary then using a very sharp flat-head screw driver is just about as good. My old nemesis Bill used to take a small hammer and drive a flat head screw driver into the soft metal of stripped screws. Heavy handed but it always worked for him... though I often wondered what else he broke while trying to "fix" those laptops.
Jon On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 13:27, Ron Joffe wrote: > In the past small torx bits have come in handy with stripped out phillips > screws like the ones on the thinkpad. > > Ron > > > > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 12:34, Keith Johnson wrote: > > I have them down to 1/32" -- though the more I think about it I doubt > > I got the real small ones at just any hardware store. > > > > kj > > > > At 12:12 PM 3/29/2006, you wrote: > > >Do they even make Ez-Outs small enough to work on those laptop screws? > > >I've had the keyboard off both Thinkpad's I've owned and the screws > > >holding it down are tiny tiny tiny. > > > > > >--[Lance] > > > > > >Keith Johnson wrote: > > > > Better yet -- go to your local hardware store and get an Ez-Out bit. > > > > > >-- > > > Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ > > > Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ > > > My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ > > > GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 > > > CACert.org Assurer > > >-- > > >TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > >TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > >TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
