 Poster: A snowHead
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ok, so i bought a spare board+bindings on ebay.
i left it for a while, forgetting to do anything with it - but now im getting concious of the season i decided to dust it off and get ready for my next trip to the slopes. turns out the bindings are screwed into the board so tightly that the heads of the screws are softened by the attempts of the former owner to tighten or loosen them. after much wd-40, patience and some brute force with a variety of evil screwdrivers ive only got 3 screws left to remove. their heads are mushed though, totally impossible to get a screwdriver to grip.
i know of drillbits i can use to hopefully drill into the screw and force it to counter-rotate itself out, but im not confident that it'll work. anyone got any other ideas?
oh and now i need more screws for my bindings - when i finally get these out.
my other board+bindings uses a longer set of screws - so ideally id like a stock of both types. any good locations? can i buy the right size from normal hardware shops or do i need a specific type of screw?
thanks
duncan
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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dnc, Used a screw extractor the other day to get a broken bolt out of a piece of equipment. I was sceptical that it would work but it did the job
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dnc, for future reference, ammonia works better than WD40 for stuck aluminium
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Funny you mention binding screws as I mounted a pair of touring bindings this weekend and had a problem removing one of the old screws from a pair of skis. Often the skiman uses araldite when fitting screws and you will have to heat the screw to remove it easily, you can do this with a powerful soldering iron - say 25-40 watts. It only needs to warm the screw to release the araldite.
Otherwide drill the head out with a 4 mm bit and then pull it out with a pair of pliers.
If you are mounting bindings I suggest doing it in a well lit room or better, in sunlight so you can properly see what you are doing.
Of course none of this might apply to snowboard bindings but heating often freeze stuck nuts.
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veeeight, the tool of the devil
Be very careful with screw extractors theyre hardened and can break quite easily. If that happens you're completely stuffed unless you know a local discharge machining specialist. I'm not sure I'd even class them as a last reort I'd just never use them.
If the heads have mashed a bit, my first stop would be an impact driver if necessary grind a slot for flat bit with a dremel a soldering iron on the head (the screw not yours) works wonders in plastics, not enough to melt the plastic.
As veeeight says essential to have the right bit.
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ok thanks everyone. i'll give everyones suggestions a go at the weekend. now where can i get some spare screws from?
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