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Stripped Screw 1ghz MDD
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sasquatchia, year 3000
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OK, so I just received a brand new MDD single ghz G4.. replacing my most trusty gigabit G4 (which is now being inherited by my younger brother) .. and WOAH .. I wasn't expecting the different to be honest, all this new speed is unsettling =)
But anyway, before I even turned it on I went to remove the stock GeForce 4 MX, to replace it with a Radeon 8500 I have (with the intensions of putting the GeForce in the gigabit) .. but uh Apple I suppose in the manufactoring process totally demolished the head of the screw and I can't get the ****ing thing out.!  I've tried scissors to like wrench it out? And hardcore pressure with a screwdriver trying to get it to budge, but it just won't move .. does anyone have any ideas on what to do about this ? I REALLY .. do not want to RMA the system just for a messed up screw. One suggestion I've had so far is a hacksaw ?? I don't know about that though, I don't think I want anything huge with limb chopping abilities anywhere near this thing =)
Thanks for any possible solutions...
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: WV, USA
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Hmm...that's a bummer...have you tried using needle-nose pliars to try and twist it out? Or maybe a small head wrench to turn it out? If it's just that the screw is funkdified, as a last resort I would *carefully* use a hacksaw to cut the screw in half so you can pull it out, and just replace it w/ another screw. Good luck! 
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5G 60GB video iPod
512MB iPod Shuffle
Westone UM1 Canalphones
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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BLOW TOURCH!
the needle nose always work for me..just pinch it hard and try for just a tiny turn, to break it free...
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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In a realm beyond site, the sky shines gold, not blue, there the Triforce's might makes mortal dreams come true.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Sasquatchia, year 3000
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nooo! no RMA =) I am in LOVE with this machine, tommorow I'll go to the hardware store and pick up those pliers, thanks!
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Yup, pliers should do the job.
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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one
pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside,
thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO!"
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Get a screw extractor kit from Sears. I stripped a screw on the back of my MDD and had to use one. It worked for me.
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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Sometimes at work we've used a drill to back out a stripped screw. Just use some decent pressure running the drill in reverse and you may be able to back the screw out.
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