DA7700 Shifter stripped screw advise needed

RS · Apr 12, 2008

I went to change the shifter cables on my DA7700 equiped bike and the little
screw holding the cover over the shift cable end wouldn't come off. I managed
to mangle it further. Images are below, any ideas how to get the little screw
off? After using various tiny philips screwdrivers and I tried small straight
bladed screwdrivers. It won't budge. I can't get a small pair of vise grips on it,
screw head is much too small and rounded. Thanks to all, Rick.

http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped_b.jp

Lou Holtman · Apr 12, 2008

RS wrote:
> I went to change the shifter cables on my DA7700 equiped bike and the little
> screw holding the cover over the shift cable end wouldn't come off. I managed
> to mangle it further. Images are below, any ideas how to get the little screw
> off? After using various tiny philips screwdrivers and I tried small straight
> bladed screwdrivers. It won't budge. I can't get a small pair of vise grips on it,
> screw head is much too small and rounded. Thanks to all, Rick.
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped.jpg
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped_b.jp
>

Grind a slot in it with a dremel cut off wheel and use a flat screwdriver.

Lou

Peter Howard · Apr 12, 2008

"Werehatrack" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:56:54 +0200, Lou Holtman
> <[email protected]> may have said:
>
>>RS wrote:
>>> I went to change the shifter cables on my DA7700 equiped bike and the
>>> little
>>> screw holding the cover over the shift cable end wouldn't come off. I
>>> managed
>>> to mangle it further. Images are below, any ideas how to get the little
>>> screw
>>> off? After using various tiny philips screwdrivers and I tried small
>>> straight
>>> bladed screwdrivers. It won't budge. I can't get a small pair of vise
>>> grips on it,
>>> screw head is much too small and rounded. Thanks to all, Rick.
>>>
>>> http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped.jpg
>>>
>>> http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped_b.jp
>>>
>>
>>
>>Grind a slot in it with a dremel cut off wheel and use a flat screwdriver.
>
> It may loosen up a bit if you give it a light whack dead center with a
> tiny punch and a light hammer; I'd do that prior to slotting it with
> the Dremel.
>

Heat is good. A gas torch might not be a good idea but an 80W electric
soldering iron applied to the head of the screw will help. Slotting it
carefully with a Dremel cutoff wheel as suggested above might be the only
way to get a grip on it once the heat has loosened up the corrosion holding
it. If you don't have a Dremel tool now's your excuse to get one, or a
cheapo $20 imitation.

PH

Werehatrack · Apr 12, 2008

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:56:54 +0200, Lou Holtman
<[email protected]> may have said:

>RS wrote:
>> I went to change the shifter cables on my DA7700 equiped bike and the little
>> screw holding the cover over the shift cable end wouldn't come off. I managed
>> to mangle it further. Images are below, any ideas how to get the little screw
>> off? After using various tiny philips screwdrivers and I tried small straight
>> bladed screwdrivers. It won't budge. I can't get a small pair of vise grips on it,
>> screw head is much too small and rounded. Thanks to all, Rick.
>>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped.jpg
>>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped_b.jp
>>
>
>
>Grind a slot in it with a dremel cut off wheel and use a flat screwdriver.

It may loosen up a bit if you give it a light whack dead center with a
tiny punch and a light hammer; I'd do that prior to slotting it with
the Dremel.

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RS · Apr 12, 2008

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
>
>I went to change the shifter cables on my DA7700 equiped bike and the little
>screw holding the cover over the shift cable end wouldn't come off. I
managed
>to mangle it further. Images are below, any ideas how to get the little screw
>off? After using various tiny philips screwdrivers and I tried small straight
>bladed screwdrivers. It won't budge. I can't get a small pair of vise grips on
it,
>screw head is much too small and rounded. Thanks to all, Rick.
>
>http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped.jpg
>
>http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped_b.jp
>
Dremel tool idea worked. Got a mandril and cutoff wheels, used a power drill.

thanks!

Michael Press · Apr 12, 2008

In article <[email protected]>,
RS <[email protected]> wrote:

> I went to change the shifter cables on my DA7700 equiped bike and the little
> screw holding the cover over the shift cable end wouldn't come off. I managed
> to mangle it further. Images are below, any ideas how to get the little screw
> off? After using various tiny philips screwdrivers and I tried small straight
> bladed screwdrivers. It won't budge. I can't get a small pair of vise grips on it,
> screw head is much too small and rounded. Thanks to all, Rick.
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped.jpg
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped_b.jp

Vise grips?
O2 and H-C-C-H torch?
Tactical nuke?

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Werehatrack · Apr 12, 2008

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:03:30 -0700, Michael Press <[email protected]>
may have said:

>In article <[email protected]>,
> RS <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I went to change the shifter cables on my DA7700 equiped bike and the little
>> screw holding the cover over the shift cable end wouldn't come off. I managed
>> to mangle it further. Images are below, any ideas how to get the little screw
>> off? After using various tiny philips screwdrivers and I tried small straight
>> bladed screwdrivers. It won't budge. I can't get a small pair of vise grips on it,
>> screw head is much too small and rounded. Thanks to all, Rick.
>>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped.jpg
>>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~expansive/stripped_b.jp
>
>Vise grips?
>O2 and H-C-C-H torch?
>Tactical nuke?

After the fact?

TacNuke; now there's a tool none of us gets to use often enough.

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Joel Mayes · Apr 12, 2008

On 2008-04-12, RS <[email protected]> wrote:
> I went to change the shifter cables on my DA7700 equiped bike and the
> little screw holding the cover over the shift cable end wouldn't come
> off. I managed to mangle it further. Images are below, any ideas how
> to get the little screw off? After using various tiny philips
> screwdrivers and I tried small straight bladed screwdrivers. It won't
> budge. I can't get a small pair of vise grips on it, screw head is
> much too small and rounded. Thanks to all, Rick.

Kinchrome make a small size bolt extractors called Kwick Outs, you need
a reversable power drill to use them.

Cheers

Joel

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