john_the_bass Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Morning folks I am selling off a bit of mine and my guitarist's gear at the minute and have just sold his dreaful Jedson tele copy. He's left handed so converted it to left hand drive, I've put it back together for normal people but need to take the strap button out of the bottom horn and put it back onto the top horn. The only problem is somebody has damaged the screwhead and I can't get a screwdriver onto it to take it out. I am not endowed with tools or skills so if you have any suggestions. I'd chuck the thing on the fire personally, but unfortunately I have committed to selling it for him so I can buy him some proper left handed guitars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Burpster Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Do you have a drill? If you do if you carefully drill into the hole that the screw head now has in it and the drill is as large or larger than the shank of the screw, as soon as the drill bit gets to the shank the rest of the head will fall off. Grab whats left of the shankl with a pair of pliers and twist it out...... Enjoy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_the_bass Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 [quote name='The Burpster' post='42374' date='Aug 7 2007, 11:09 AM']Do you have a drill? If you do if you carefully drill into the hole that the screw head now has in it and the drill is as large or larger than the shank of the screw, as soon as the drill bit gets to the shank the rest of the head will fall off. Grab whats left of the shankl with a pair of pliers and twist it out...... Enjoy....[/quote] cheers for that. I shall have a bash and hopefully, not knacker it up!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_the_bass Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 i forgot to add, it's got a strap button still attached to it. does that make any difference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Try an impact driver first... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_the_bass Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 i don't know what an impact driver is/does!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Most car mechanics should have one - you can set it to tighten or untighten, then you smack it with a hammer, and it transfers much of the forward force to a twist... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muppet Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Just a little bit further down the forum finds this which may be of some help [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3779"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3779[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_the_bass Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 good stuff. i drilled into it and drilled the screwhead off, which let me take the strap button off and then unscrewed the rest of the screw with a pair of plyers. bloody hell they get hot when you've been drilling them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Burpster Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Good lad...... Impact driver near a guitar? Woooooo hoooooo easy tiger! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_the_bass Posted August 7, 2007 Author Share Posted August 7, 2007 Impact driver near a plywood jedson now i know that you have to hit em with a hammer.... it would probably have fallen to bits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 [quote name='The Burpster' post='42598' date='Aug 7 2007, 07:23 PM']Good lad...... Impact driver near a guitar? Woooooo hoooooo easy tiger! [/quote] Actually, my first thought was: Hacksaw through the strap button and the screw shaft, then take it out with pliers and fit another - but figured one tap with an impact driver might shift it. Failing that, a shaped charge perhaps... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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