[TriLUG] Re: [OT] I killed my laptop ...

Ron Joffe rjoffe at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 29 13:27:08 EST 2006


In the past small torx bits have come in handy with stripped out phillips 
screws like the ones on the thinkpad.

Ron



On Wednesday 29 March 2006 12:34, Keith Johnson wrote:
> I have them down to 1/32" -- though the more I think about it I doubt
> I got the real small ones at just any hardware store.
>
> kj
>
> At 12:12 PM 3/29/2006, you wrote:
> >Do they even make Ez-Outs small enough to work on those laptop screws?
> >I've had the keyboard off both Thinkpad's I've owned and the screws
> >holding it down are tiny tiny tiny.
> >
> >--[Lance]
> >
> >Keith Johnson wrote:
> > > Better yet -- go to your local hardware store and get an Ez-Out bit.
> >
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