DAM Nentindo Screws!!

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:34 pm

GRR I hate the stoopid Nintendo Screws!!! Dont you?

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:37 pm

Wow, another stupid thread about nintendo screws. But a flipping screwdriver.

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:37 pm

sry wrong forum

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:38 pm

sry i didnt knwo you gusy get a lot of those, i jsut didnt know what to post as my first post

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:41 pm

Its okay, but too many people complain before spending the 6 dollars for a bit.

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:43 pm

where i am the local Hardware sttore says "thats a fake and stupid screw we dont carry those bits"

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:46 pm

ebay. search nintendo screwdriver.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:44 pm

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:59 pm

And use the edit button. Don't double post.

Lucretius · Post by **Lucretius** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:02 pm

The great thing about screws is that after you get them loose, all you need is some clearence, and you can twist them off with your bare hands. The trick is getting that initial loosening.

There are plenty of methods to get off those Tri-Wing screws, my personal favorite is using those tiny flated head screwdivers. That takes me like a minutes per screw.

The difficulty comes with those inverted torx screws. But the simplest, yet hardest to work with is smipley taking a "bluntly" pointed object, like a rolling-writer pen and shoving it in one of the holes. Then just keep pushing till you find torque. Then go with it. Once it comes up high enough, you can just twist it off with your hands.

Now someone add this to a "help Me" sticky. I'm a genious!

SpongeBuell wrote:Lucretius is a freaking genious!

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:03 pm

wait a minute....why is this in the atari forum...

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:14 pm

Heat up the screw with your soldering iron till the plastic melts, then pull it out with needle nose pliers

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:11 am

Lucretius wrote:Now someone add this to a "help Me" sticky. I'm a genious!

Nah, the 2600 uses standard phillips screwdrivers... it's not really needed

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:18 am

This was supposed to be in some sort of nintendo or 42 forum, but in his post-streak, the kid clicked the wrong button.

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:40 pm

Lucretius wrote:The great thing about screws is that after you get them loose, all you need is some clearence, and you can twist them off with your bare hands. The trick is getting that initial loosening.

There are plenty of methods to get off those Tri-Wing screws, my personal favorite is using those tiny flated head screwdivers. That takes me like a minutes per screw.

The difficulty comes with those inverted torx screws. But the simplest, yet hardest to work with is smipley taking a "bluntly" pointed object, like a rolling-writer pen and shoving it in one of the holes. Then just keep pushing till you find torque. Then go with it. Once it comes up high enough, you can just twist it off with your hands.

Now someone add this to a "help Me" sticky. I'm a genious!
SpongeBuell wrote:Lucretius is a freaking genious!

I have actually found that many stores sell the tri-wing, so it's easy to find now, but the problem is really with the GameBit screws (as they're called). My personal favorite method is to take a file to a plain flat-head 'driver, or if you're hi-tech, find a "snake eyes" screwdriver that will fit around one pair of notches in the screw (if you don't know what that means, a "snake eyes" screw is commonly found in elevators, which my uncle works with occasionally, and has two square holes, one on either side. His favorite method is to clamp two 3/32 drill bits in a vicegrips and unscrew them that way, but that doesn't work if the screws are recessed.)