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From: Impmon on 16 Jan 2006 14:07 On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:07:20 -0600, RP <no_mail_no_spam(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >At any decent hardware or home supply store. It's called a Torx screw. >Typically an allen wrench will work just fine in the absence of a Torx >screw driver. Torx is 6 pointed star and won't fit 5 star screw head well. If you force the torx to work, you're liable to strip the wrench or worse the screw head. -- When you hear the toilet flush, and hear the words "uh oh", it's already too late. - by anonymous Mother in Austin, TX Spam block in place, no emil reply is expected at all.
From: lurk@sbc junk global.net on 16 Jan 2006 14:09 what are you going to do with it when you get it apart ??? <gypsy3001(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1137394804.062197.183540(a)g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > I'm looking for a 5-point star shaped screwdriver. I bought a Seagate > 80GB external hard drive. Its case uses these special screws. I shot a > picture of a screw here: > http://www.gearhack.com/Forums/Tool/Screwdriver_for_5-Point_Star_Screw.files.hidden/5-point%20star.jpg > > Does anyone know where I can find a screwdriver for these screws? > Thanks. > > Chieh > -- > Hacking Digital Cameras - > http://www.camerahacker.com/books/Hacking_Digital_Cameras/ >
From: Stephen on 16 Jan 2006 15:06 On 15 Jan 2006 23:00:04 -0800, gypsy3001(a)yahoo.com had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out: >I'm looking for a 5-point star shaped screwdriver. I bought a Seagate >80GB external hard drive. Its case uses these special screws. I shot a >picture of a screw here: >http://www.gearhack.com/Forums/Tool/Screwdriver_for_5-Point_Star_Screw.files.hidden/5-point%20star.jpg > >Does anyone know where I can find a screwdriver for these screws? >Thanks. > >Chieh http://www.wihatools.com/indexes/indxtorx.htm Stephen --
From: Rob B on 16 Jan 2006 15:24 "Stephen" <yes(a)its.invalid> wrote in message news:v1vns1ljroc6bdvelrdfgbeq3u9a4g3srp(a)4ax.com... > On 15 Jan 2006 23:00:04 -0800, gypsy3001(a)yahoo.com had a flock of > green cheek conures squawk out: > > >I'm looking for a 5-point star shaped screwdriver. I bought a Seagate > >80GB external hard drive. Its case uses these special screws. I shot a > >picture of a screw here: > >http://www.gearhack.com/Forums/Tool/Screwdriver_for_5-Point_Star_Screw.file s.hidden/5-point%20star.jpg > > > >Does anyone know where I can find a screwdriver for these screws? > >Thanks. > > > >Chieh > > http://www.wihatools.com/indexes/indxtorx.htm > > Stephen > -- none of those torx drivers in the link show a 5 pointer ? even the one that says textron applications ?
From: mm on 16 Jan 2006 15:26
On 15 Jan 2006 23:00:04 -0800, gypsy3001(a)yahoo.com wrote: >I'm looking for a 5-point star shaped screwdriver. I bought a Seagate >80GB external hard drive. Its case uses these special screws. I shot a >picture of a screw here: >http://www.gearhack.com/Forums/Tool/Screwdriver_for_5-Point_Star_Screw.files.hidden/5-point%20star.jpg > >Does anyone know where I can find a screwdriver for these screws? >Thanks. The tips that others have recommended were not available to the public, or at least not at a sufficiently low price, for quite a while after the screws came out. The same process will happen again and again. So.... Buy your self some left-handed drill bits and drill out the screws. You can do the same with right-handed drill bits, but it takes a lot more time. With LH, the bit acts as a screwdriver all the while it is drilling, and the receiving threads are usually good when you're done. Replace with other screws. There is one general tool vendor on the net that has LH screwdrivers, and the very big hardware store in Dallas (Eliot's, I think) had them when I was there. (It's fun to ask for them at big box stores, and even most hardware stores. They think it's a joke, like left-handed poker chips. > >Chieh Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also. |