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Todays tip - Door hinges

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jlaird

jlaird

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How to remove the hinge screws when nothing else works.

Drill the head off. The threads are in the hinge its self.

Reach in behind with vice grips and back whats left of the screw out. You will need vice grips with the long pointy snouts in a smallish size.

Here it is 9 in the morning and I have cleaned up the bonnet rests, alum., a front shock, and removed that darn screw thats been bugging me. Now time for breakfast with wife.
 
Jack - when we retired from the military, we were allowed to stop "doing more before breakfast than most people do all day"....morning, Top!
 
Hehe, thats what my folks always said as I wandered the warehouses in the middle of the nite, just makeing sure. Intresting what you find at times at 3 or 4 in the morning.
 
I have another tip for removing these screws. I took a #3 Phillips tip in a small socket. Using a bit of pressure & a Hammer drill/Impact driver these screws, even stripped ones, backed right out.
 
Oh, did all that. My tip is when all else fails. Maybe I should have said so but assumed that it would be understood.

There's that A S S U M E again.
 
Remember, those are not Phillips screws - they're Posidrives
 
Correct Tony, I've always been amazed at how the correct pozi-drive bit can removed a pozi-drive head bolt that has been chewed up by phillips head screwdriver.
 
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