Hi, Roy.  (About tamper-proof torx screws)
-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to PHIL MARLOWE <=-

 PM> Did anyone find a solution to removing that type of screww when
 PM> this was being discussed here?

In the earlier thread, BIR the main suggestion was to buy the torx bit
with the little hole in the tip to receive the pin.  In some of the
recent replies, folks have suggested some more alternatives.  BIR, I've
had a bit of success sometimes with taking a center punch and knocking
the top of that pin down far enough that a standard Torx bit would fit
down in there far enough to catch.

 RJT> I have only a vague recollection of this thread,  but if it comes down
 RJT> to it I'll buy some tools.  Or drill the buggers out...

Back in the earlier thread, I had written that I burned up a high-speed
drill bit trying to drill some of those things out from an IBM power
supply. Those screw heads are made of _hard_ metal, and standard drill
bit configuration doesn't do much cutting right in the center, where
that pin is located.  I probably had the drill press set at way too
high RPM, and BIR about the time I noticed that the bit wasn't cutting
anymore, I looked down and saw that the bit was now red hot.  :-(.
Needless to say, when I saw that I was a bit torked.  (hee)

- - -  JimH.
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