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Re: brake Drum small Screws: How to get them loose ?

To: Ripart Lionel <ripart@ipce.eu.sony.co.jp>
Subject: Re: brake Drum small Screws: How to get them loose ?
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:52:53 -0500 ()
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Ripart Lionel wrote:

> ...['67 MKIII] the 2 small screws holding the drum are stuck !! 
 
> I already damaged them quite a bit by trying to unscrew them with my biggest 
>screwdriver. 
 
> Do you have any tip to get them loose or shall I just destroy the heads
> of the screw and once the drum is off I would remove the rest of the
> screws and replace them (or not, are they really usefull ?) 

Many, many times I have simply drilled out the head (carefully: just
enough to remove the head of the screw but not enough to damage the brake
drum), then pulled off the drum and removed what was left of the screw
with pliers ("Vice Grip" seemed to work very well).

--Andy

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