yeah, I've done this for years...in fact at a company
I used to work at, we would determine if a warrantee
dispute was valid by examining the threads under a
magnifying glass. If there was more than one thread,
the claim was out of warrantee...
Ed
web/gadget guru
--- Leland Jory <ljory@newted.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > ..inside your Newt and torque the screws down...be
> > careful though, this is plastic that you are
> torquing
> > into and if you strip the thread, then you're
> really
> > SOL!!!!!I mean it! it won't be pretty!
>
> FYI, a trick I learned to replace
> self-stripping...er...I mean self-tapping
> screws is this: When re-inserting the screw, back
> the screw off (i.e. turn
> it counter-clockwise) until you feel a slight
> "click" (for lack of a better
> adjective), then tighten the screw down.
>
> What you are doing is finding the original threads.
> If you don't do this,
> you will probably cut new threads. This is fine the
> first time you replace
> the screw, but if you do it more than once, you're
> running the risk of
> stripping the hole completely.
=====
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