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Re: [Spridgets] Dead screws

To: Michael Rowe <mdrowe@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Dead screws
From: Frank <spritenut@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 23:11:43 -0400
Michael Rowe wrote:
> Two of the 12 Phillips post-to-door-hinge screws on my BE have heads stripped 
>too much for an impact screw driver.  They are deep enough to make it 
>difficult to get any other tool in there.  Any advice?
>
> Maybe I can weld a nut onto the Phillips head?
>   
Heat em up cherry red, try vise grips. It has worked for me a few times.
I always chase the threads in the fixed mounting plates after paint 
before the doors go back on, it helps too.

-- 
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
My own Fleet of Sprites
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