Any ideas on taking out damaged laptop screw?
I want to use my sisters old laptop but HP poorly designed the cooling system for the GPU. I want to add a copper shim and some thermal paste to replace the cheap thermal foam that was put in. The problem is there is a damaged screw which I can not take out and is the only thing stopping me from using this laptop. What I mean by poorly designed is that the GPU is 70 - 80 C on idle. I know people have been able to drop there temperatures by 20C by the method I mention. If I don't fix this the GPU has the potential to fry the motherboard.
April 10, 2011
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If you find it hard to find a screw extractor small enough to work on the screw, try drilling out the screw head to remove it and allow the case to be opened.
Then use a "vice grip" pliers to lock as tightly as you can onto the stub of the screw that's sticking up from the other piece of the case and very, very gently try to twist it out
Don't drill any more of the screw than you absolutely have to, to get the case apart, so it will leave as much metal as possible to get a good grip on with the vice grips. And you may find that very, very lightly filing flat spots on opposite sides of the screw shaft may allow the vice grips to hold more tightly without slipping.
Well, depending on how much it is stripped, using the correct size screwdriver may allow you to grip what is left on the screw head.
Do what Disappoint said.
Soldered a hard piece of copper that's bent into a L shape onto the screw. lol
The head is striped and the screw driver keeps slipping.
What's wrong with the screw exactly?