It stripped a screw of my Blade

[Guest Jekle]

Yesterday my New Digitiser came for my Orange San Francisco and I was using a Cross Head Screwdriver and Unscrewed 7 of the Screws but then in the Top Left hand corner the next screw wouldn't come off and ended up stripping the head of the screw and now can't get it out?

Any Ideas?

I thought of using some super glue and setting it up to get the screwdriver to stay in that position for 24 hours and then taking it out.

Thanks It's urgent!

[Guest esaitchkay]

Yesterday my New Digitiser came for my Orange San Francisco and I was using a Cross Head Screwdriver and Unscrewed 7 of the Screws but then in the Top Left hand corner the next screw wouldn't come off and ended up stripping the head of the screw and now can't get it out?

Any Ideas?

I thought of using some super glue and setting it up to get the screwdriver to stay in that position for 24 hours and then taking it out.

Thanks It's urgent!

superglue onto a toothpick or something, and then leave it on the screw and then turn a few hours later?

[Guest jamidodger1]

You can't really do any thing, as it's small you haven't really got a chance :) but you could try pulling the phone apart (forcing screw to undo)

[Guest jamidodger1]

superglue onto a toothpick or something, and then leave it on the screw and then turn a few hours later?

Tried that before on a pc motherboard screw with no luck

[Guest jamidodger1]

You could take it to a watch shop (repair shop thing) and see if they could do anything?

[Guest galorin]

Tried that before on a pc motherboard screw with no luck

If you can get a thin rubber band, lay it across the screw, and then push the screwdriver in to the rubber band, that may get it loose as well.

[Guest The Soup Thief]

Bummer!

I think you'd do best taking it to a decent watch repair place and just pay them to get the screw out. I've no idea how they'd do it - it's too small to drill and whenever I've tried to use superglue to get similar tiny components out of phones it's not gone well (eg gunked up an XDAII headphone socket a few years back). They have some really cool gadgets though, like tiny little long nosed vices, so they can grab on to tiny stumps of things like screws w chewed off heads

Good luck

[Guest Jekle]

If you can get a thin rubber band, lay it across the screw, and then push the screwdriver in to the rubber band, that may get it loose as well.

Tried it :)

[Guest jamidodger1]

No luck then? Have you got a local watch shop?

[Guest Jekle]

Bummer!

I think you'd do best taking it to a decent watch repair place and just pay them to get the screw out. I've no idea how they'd do it - it's too small to drill and whenever I've tried to use superglue to get similar tiny components out of phones it's not gone well (eg gunked up an XDAII headphone socket a few years back). They have some really cool gadgets though, like tiny little long nosed vices, so they can grab on to tiny stumps of things like screws w chewed off heads

Good luck

Thanks for that I'll try my local Watch Shop and I'll see what they can do, It's a half day Today (Wednesday for shops in my town) So I'll try tommrow, Does anyone know how much this is gunna cost? My Dad said it's too small to drill and could mess up something inside it. (Like you said)

Thanks Guys the help is very much appriciated!

Edited April 20, 2011 by Jekle

[Guest DannyDanny]

Drill woudnt work as the screw isjust too small

(dont try unless you can get an access to a decent bench drill and a tiny tiny screw)

watchshop wont do much too but its worth a shot.

[Guest Jekle]

Drill woudnt work as the screw isjust too small

(dont try unless you can get an access to a decent bench drill and a tiny tiny screw)

watchshop wont do much too but its worth a shot.

Why do you think they won't do anything about it? They have all sorts of Tools to get Tiny Tiny Watch Screws out, I Personally think that they won't be able to do anything about it... What else do you suggest If the Watch shop can't do anything about it?

Thanks

[Guest The Soup Thief]

Why do you think they won't do anything about it? They have all sorts of Tools to get Tiny Tiny Watch Screws out, I Personally think that they won't be able to do anything about it... What else do you suggest If the Watch shop can't do anything about it?

Thanks

Maybe better you go to a proper old-style watch repair place rather that some chainstore jeweller, who will usually just farm watch mending jobs out (so won't be interested in something like this)

If there's no other way round it a proper craftsman will be able to drill this out with a much greater chance of succes than a ham-fisted amateur like any of us. It wouldn't really matter if they stripped off the thread on the screw hole itself as there are a bunch of other screws holding it together

Again, good luck

I guess there's a moral in this somewhere - I'm sure I'll never learn it either!

[Guest Jekle]

Maybe better you go to a proper old-style watch repair place rather that some chainstore jeweller, who will usually just farm watch mending jobs out (so won't be interested in something like this)

If there's no other way round it a proper craftsman will be able to drill this out with a much greater chance of succes than a ham-fisted amateur like any of us. It wouldn't really matter if they stripped off the thread on the screw hole itself as there are a bunch of other screws holding it together

Again, good luck

I guess there's a moral in this somewhere - I'm sure I'll never learn it either!

It's not any chain jewellers, they are a family jewellers they've been there from my Mums Knowledge 10 years + I'll give you an update tommrow to see how things went.

Thanks

[Guest isambard]

get a small drill and drill it out.

[Guest sambartle]

I've always found with screws that small if you just keep ragging at it with the screwdriver the head will all crack and crumble anyway and you can just pull the case apart over it.. usually it isn't threaded on the top side.. but that's just me it may cause damage.

If you want to be careful about it get a bench drill as suggested and drill it out.. that's pretty easy and safe if you go carefully.

[Guest Jekle]

I've always found with screws that small if you just keep ragging at it with the screwdriver the head will all crack and crumble anyway and you can just pull the case apart over it.. usually it isn't threaded on the top side.. but that's just me it may cause damage.

If you want to be careful about it get a bench drill as suggested and drill it out.. that's pretty easy and safe if you go carefully.

I think I'll try drilling it out later, I'm not gunna try with the screwdriver trying to get the screw to crack. I'll keep you updated

Thanks

EDIT: I don't have a bench drill, I have dremel and a manual drill, I not really clued up with this like this, I will ask my Dad Later he's knows all about these sort of things. My Dad did say yesterday that it's too small to drill but as you said that going carefully is pretty safe.

Thanks

Any other ideas?

Edited April 20, 2011 by Jekle

[Guest esaitchkay]

Tried that before on a pc motherboard screw with no luck

oh, I didn't know the screws on the blade were that tight. I don't understand how you could destroy the head of a motherboard screw; they're really strong O_O

[Guest walkies2000]

did you say you had a Dremmel? isnt there a attachment that will let you grind the screw head off?,

[Guest FrownBreaker]

Yesterday my New Digitiser came for my Orange San Francisco and I was using a Cross Head Screwdriver and Unscrewed 7 of the Screws but then in the Top Left hand corner the next screw wouldn't come off and ended up stripping the head of the screw and now can't get it out?

Any Ideas?

I thought of using some super glue and setting it up to get the screwdriver to stay in that position for 24 hours and then taking it out.

Thanks It's urgent!

Where did you get the new screen? My daughters SF has a cracked screen :) was it from ebay ?

with the screw the surface you mount the phone on and the interface with the phone are important. Put it on a towel on a firm surface so the pressure is across the whole phone then stand and use the weight of your body pushing down through your arm to get purchase on the metal of the remains of the screw head. Use a quality screwdriver not the £1 ones. Or a sharp one from the £1 store! The better the handle the more pressure you can apply and the the grip on the side is key to apply a turning force.

Is it a cross head or Torx? Let me know the size I can post a link to a low cost supplier if you need?

[Guest Jekle]

Where did you get the new screen? My daughters SF has a cracked screen :) was it from ebay ?

with the screw the surface you mount the phone on and the interface with the phone are important. Put it on a towel on a firm surface so the pressure is across the whole phone then stand and use the weight of your body pushing down through your arm to get purchase on the metal of the remains of the screw head. Use a quality screwdriver not the £1 ones. Or a sharp one from the £1 store! The better the handle the more pressure you can apply and the the grip on the side is key to apply a turning force.

Is it a cross head or Torx? Let me know the size I can post a link to a low cost supplier if you need?

This is the guide I used (Well attempted)

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...reen-zte-blade/

It says something like posidrive guage 00?

[Guest mcfly666]

Depending on the location, a dremel with a thin cutting blade can be used, just gently cut a slot into the head and then you can remove it with a small flat headed screwdriver. You might even be able to use it again :)

Did this on quite a few screws that have rounded off, or even because i didnt have the right shaped head on my screwdrivers.

[Guest Jekle]

Depending on the location, a dremel with a thin cutting blade can be used, just gently cut a slot into the head and then you can remove it with a small flat headed screwdriver. You might even be able to use it again :)

Did this on quite a few screws that have rounded off, or even because i didnt have the right shaped head on my screwdrivers.

What does it have to do with my location? :)