how do i get these screws off!?

Admiral Mukavich · Post by **Admiral Mukavich** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:39 am

since i take things apart only if i want to modify them, i often plan on getting a new case anyway, o i just butcher the thing open with a flathead screwdriver and a pair of tin snips.... plastic brutalization! love it!

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:52 am

It all depends what your opening.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:57 am

Admiral Mukavich wrote:since i take things apart only if i want to modify them, i often plan on getting a new case anyway, o i just butcher the thing open with a flathead screwdriver and a pair of tin snips.... plastic brutalization! love it!

Be careful, you don't want to kill anything. Here is a picture of the N64 mobo and case so that you can get an idea of where you shouldn't hit.

FreakyDDR · Post by **FreakyDDR** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:11 am

whoa, they could have made it much smaller, sweet there heaps of room to stab it

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:26 am

Glad they didn't otherwise my GC wouldn't fit in there!

jeffslot · Post by **jeffslot** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:25 pm

Ha, Ha

I must admit that I was a total doubter on this method (especiallly because this is my 2nd attempt), however it worked like a charm this time. I removed all the screws with this one pen.

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/8012/img0416ip5.jpg

HazmatB · Post by **HazmatB** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:55 pm

Sorry to pull this from the dead, but did you just use a lighter to heat it up? I wouldn't want to use a soldering iron and ruin it.

EDIT: Just bought the damn screwdriver. Thanks anyways.

Adam G · Post by **Adam G** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:05 am

Since you bumped it up, I'll tell you my universal method.

Take a drill and a bit, then you have two options.

1.) If you just need it open, choose a bit larger than the screw head and drill it away, this will leave the end of the screw in the plastic.

2.) Take a bit that fits inside the head of the screw, put the drill in reverse and with enough pressure, the screw will come right out.

Both methods have worked for me. The first I used on a stripped GBC screw, the latter I have used for many things. Though, you cannot reuse the screws in either of my methods, I normally swap them out for regular/philips.

~Adam~

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:43 am

I use a GameBit screwdriver from e-bay. If I ever want to sell it, I can probably get most of my money back on it, and it is so easy to open an N64 with one!

Gamerdude · Post by **Gamerdude** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:44 pm

A Hot Knife (as in the electric kind for cutting rope, etc.), a Dremel (my favorite), a butane torch and a knife or flathead screwdriver, an oxi-acetylene torch

. A slightly safer way is too cut slits with a dremel in key positions and the top of GC will come right off, an N64 may require more cutting but you have more room to cut w/o damaging any components.

bokan · Post by **bokan** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:24 pm

I just attacked the thing with a dremel tool and the multiple screwdriver-wedge technique. Remember to get that plastic tube that goes all the way through in the very front just behind the logo.