I can't get one of the screws out of my Endura

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Ferrari353

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I'm trying to take apart my Endura 4 so I can lube the pivot. It's a user and I paid $30 for it, so I don't really care about voiding the warranty.
Anyway, I got every screw out except the one closest to the pivot (but not the pivot screw). So it's the one right next to the Spyder hole. I may have stripped it, I really don't know. When I try to turn it counter-clockwise to unscrew it, it the wrench rolls over it like it's stripped, but when I turn the other direction (clockwise) to tighten it, it grips it fine. Is it stripped? What do I do now? Last time I stripped a screw in my laptop, I had a ton of trouble getting it out. I hope it's not stripped :(
 
Can you get the screw to back out at all? If so, I'd take it from there and GENTLY use needle nose pliers to pull and unscrew at the same time. You are really running a risk if it's not stripped already that it will be if you put to much force behind it.
 
Yo Mama said:
Can you get the screw to back out at all? If so, I'd take it from there and GENTLY use needle nose pliers to pull and unscrew at the same time. You are really running a risk if it's not stripped already that it will be if you put to much force behind it.
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I can turn the screw maybe 180°, not enough to put the screw far enough out to grab them. I really don't care if the screw gets stripped because that's easily replaced, but a stripped housing may be a problem.
 
Did you use a torx driver to remove the screws? A little gentle heat may help. It is not necessary to take any knife apart for lubing the pivot. Just a drop will do it between the blade and liners.
 
skyhorse said:
Heat the screw head with a soldering pencil,that should help.
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I don't know what that is... I have a soldering iron.




Whitedog said:
Did you use a torx driver to remove the screws? A little gentle heat may help. It is not necessary to take any knife apart for lubing the pivot. Just a drop will do it between the blade and liners.
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Yes I used a torx driver. The other screws came out fine. And the lube I have doesn't have a needle applicator, so I can't fit it in.
 
Everytime I have a stripped screw I hammer in 1 size bigger torx bit into the stripped screw. It works everytime.
 
Look at the tip of your torx driver. Is it rounded at all? Meaning each point of the star at the tip.
If so you can touch it up on a bench grinder or belt sander and get a nice sharp end on it.
Those #6 bits are hard to see, and if they are rounded, they can play heck on a screw.
 
See if you can lay your hands on a tube of screw grip or similar. It's a friction solution to help bits grip on screw heads.
Some gun shops stock it.
 
I looked at the wrench with a magnifying glass and it didn't look rounded, but it was kind of hard to tell. Just to make sure, I screwed in one of the other screws and it went in fine and I had no trouble getting it back out, so it must be the screw.

I'll try the soldering iron thing later this evening.
 
wait a second. You say you cant back it out. Does it just spin in the hole when trying to back it out? To me that certainly sounds like the housing is stripped except for the very last thread or so that is allowing the tightening grip. If you are trying to back out the screw and it is spinning but just not coming out a soldering iron really isnt going to do much good. A soldering iron is more for softening loctite so that a screw will spin. If this is your standard endura It looks via pictures to have chicago screws which essentially look like mini pivots that hold the handle together. If that is the case that might be what is spinning. You can try laying the non screw side on an upside down mouse pad while trying to turn the screw. The rubber of the mouse pad will grip the other side and hopefully prevent it from spinning.
 
PURPLEDC said:
wait a second. You say you cant back it out. Does it just spin in the hole when trying to back it out? To me that certainly sounds like the housing is stripped except for the very last thread or so that is allowing the tightening grip. If you are trying to back out the screw and it is spinning but just not coming out a soldering iron really isnt going to do much good. A soldering iron is more for softening loctite so that a screw will spin.
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It's not spinning. The wrench just rolls over the head, but only when turning it counter-clockwise. When I turn it clockwise, it grips it perfectly. So I can loosen it like half a turn, but after that, it begins to roll over the head again.
 
The soldering iron thing didn't work. The screw is pretty well stripped now. I might try the epoxy thing. Will I lose the Torx driver then?
 
No you should be able to use heat to remove the screw from the bit after you remove it. Just use a small amount of epoxy. You dont want to squish the epoxy down into the knife just the screw head.
 
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