And a fourth suggestion:

try drilling a 2mm hole in the center of the screws head. It should make
the screws head break! Then you can remove the module, then unbuild the
housing, then remove the nut strip, and finally you can grab the rest of
the screw with a plier.

I did this once with some frozen screws in a large 4048 SSL console. You
can imagine, that I sweated blood when doing this ;-)

Florian


Gene Schwartz wrote:

> This sounds interesting - I just don't have experience in this stuff, so I don't know what exists...but I think by this point that it might be stripped also....I'm not sure exactly how to tell. The original owner insists that he didn't put in the modules - they were put in by Enport, when he got it. So it would make sense that it was overtightened ( ), but I've probably totally screwed it up by now.
>
> In any case, I've gotten what sound like 3 good suggestions so far, so, thank you!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com [mailto: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Ben Vehorn
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 7:08 AM
> To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: 1 Dumb question/ stuck screw in a-100
>
>
> Also, you can buy "stripped screw remover bits" at a hardware store.
> It's incredibly handy to keep at least one of these around. Though your
> screw sounds like it's overtightened instead of stripped, the principal
> is the same and it should provide enough torque to get it out. Just
> make sure you get a small enough bit.
>
> On Jan 30, 2006, at 9:29 AM, Gene Schwartz wrote:
>
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
>>[mailto: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com ]
>> On Behalf Of Loren Nerell
>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:07 AM
>> To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: 1 Dumb question/ stuck screw in a-100
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>> >It was suggested that I try a pair of pliers to try to get it out,
>>but
>> >all I suceeded in doing was scratching the surface ):
>>
>> "Try using vice grips instead of regular pliers."
>>
>> Ok - don't have those, but they should be easy to find.
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