[pure-silver] Re: stripped screw

Stripped screws are a pain no matter how you do it.  First do we know that the screw is actually stripped or just the top of the head so messed up a screw driver won't catch on it any more?

A penetrating oil is often used to help loosen a stubborn screw, (something like Liquid Wrench) but that close to the lens I wouldn't want that stuff on my lens.  Should it??  No but when you are that close anything can happen.  Even getting it on your hands could cause you to lose your grip when working on it and drop the whole mess.

The screw extractor works for many screws, but one that small makes it far more difficult in that its easy to get the threads and you would need then to retap the treads so any new screw would work.  Many in the US call them EZ outs, but I never found them that easy.  Any hardware store should have them so you can see how they work.

From lessons learned in the past.  NEVER start a project like this unless you have at least two ways to go in mind if what you think will work won't.  Always leave yourself an out that you can live with should what you try to do goes awry.

As much as I like to tinker with things, this time I would probably be one of those times Id punt and take it to a camera repair professional that's done it before.  Having something slip or a small shard of metal fly the wrong way and scratch a lens would be far more expensive than a repair bill.  I remember seeing a sign in an auto repair shop for a price list some time ago.  Labor rate  $20 an hour.  If you watch $30 an hour.  If you help $40 an hour.  If you tried to fix it first $100 an hour.  Without knowing it you could easily make a pros job far worse.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [pure-silver] stripped screw
From: Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, April 24, 2009 11:03 am
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have a screw on my tachihara view camera that is stripped and I can't
get it out. I need to get it out to replace it. It's one of the screws
that attaches the lens so it's important. How do you remove a stripped
screw?

--shannon


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