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Clip screw?
- Thread starter Lycosa
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Not sure anyone can. Often times it depends on how much is sticking out once you take all the screws out and remove the scale by spinning it off the screw shaft to separate it from the liner. If there is enough to get a small vise grip on then yeah you can do it. If not and the only way is by coming in from the inside of the scale with a carbide drill there are no guarantees the drill won't go off to one side and that the threads will even work after you take it out. Centering the drill can be very tricky on even a bigger screw but on the smaller ones its particularly bad. At other times it is sometimes (rarely on clip screws that small) possible to cut a slot in the end of the screw and utilize a small flat head screw driver to back the screw shaft out after using a thin kerf cut off disc to cut in a thin slot.
One of these ways may work and at other times its been possible to spin a cut off slice of a longer threaded barrel like 1/8" in ones used in folder construction. Spin that on the threads enough to expose just a couple of the threads above it. Then you ding up the threads beating them up pretty bad preventing that barrel slice off from backing off the threads and you grab that with a vise grip and turn it so you have something bigger to get a handle on. Usually if you have enough sticking out to do that its plenty to get a high quality vise grip on the shaft and just do it that way though. On some that looked like they'd be particularly troublesome I've used a good epoxy known for fixing cracks in engine blocks. Then once that sets up after dabbing a bit on the end of the screw shaft I then cut the slot in for a flat head making that slot both in the screw itself and the epoxy too which reinforces the shaft some to keep it from splitting the shaft preventing removal.
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Good show. Count yourself lucky. Not all are that easy. By the way, its not often you hear of an Emerson screw doing that. Must have been cross threaded or something so be careful replacing that screw with the new one if the threads are dinged up.
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