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Stripped Screw Head Help/Recommendations
- Thread starter Joeldiaz
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chris_1001
NES Member
Still waiting for the “after” pics.
And the new barrel pics after…
Using a milling machine, you center the quill on the screw and drill right down through the center of it, using a size that just kisses the threads.
With the center gone, use a pick to remove the remaining threads.
Do not attempt with a drill press or portable drill...
With the center gone, use a pick to remove the remaining threads.
Do not attempt with a drill press or portable drill...
chris_1001
NES Member
Pretty sure the OP does not have a mill at home…
Cut a slot in it with a small ball but , carbide is better than high speed steel .70mm should do heat up with solder gun remove with straight screwdriver grind and file tip to fit the slot I do it all the time.
Asaltweapon
NES Member
Too late for that party judging by the picture.
nstassel
NES Member
Or an in-lb torque wrench.
Lets try to be honest here for learning. Im only assuming so do not get upset.
You attempted to remove screws from the slide on a assembled gun
While golding said gun in one hand or between the knees
Been there done that and my lazy ass will still do it occasionally.
Because my vise is out in the shed or work. Anyway always find a way to mount in a vise.
Looks like Loctite was used? If your using anything but 222 loctite made for small fasteners. Your basically planning not to disassemble the parts again
Ok so if you dont have a small vise with soft jaws get one. Cheap enough. Oh you dont have a place for a 4” vise. BS bolt to a piece of 3/4 plywood and clamp to the counter. Remove clamps and toss vise in a corner somewhere
Ok my approach on this. I would spray what ever psychological support fluid on there. Place slide in the vise. Plug in the soldering iron and heat it up. Now take the tip and place it on the screw. Heat for a few minutes. Lightly tap the bit into the hole and try to remove.
Impact drivers are over kill for sm items. The tapping of the hammer is well enough.
This should do it.
Left hand drill bits work also but small ones tend to break when they grab.
Im curious if the slide is aluminum?
Now go buy a inch pound torque wrench and some 222 loctite
Or run with out loctite. Properly secured bolts generally do not come loose.
If its a steel screw and aluminum slide it could have galvanically corroded a bit or cross threaded.
Its not hard to f*** up these small threads by over tightening.
If its stripped in there
Pay the gun smith or put back together and run it.
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It was a steel slide with a healthy glob of red locktite 271 on a soft as shit stainless screw
It’s out now
Who the f*** puts red loctite on?It was a steel slide with a healthy glob of red locktite 271 on a soft as shit stainless screw
It’s out now
Stainless yeah lets put one of the easier galling materials on a small screw, lol
Glad it worked out
Stainless is generally not soft.
How did you do it and how did the parts survive, lol
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He bought the gun with the optic already installed , so who knows who the offender was
It was definitely Chinese stainless , a scribe poked right into it like it was plastic , can see why it stripped out so easily on him when he was trying to swap the optic
