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echo: tech
to: Phil Marlowe
from: Tom Walker
date: 2003-07-12 07:13:40
subject: TORX

-> > I usually just take a replaceable Torx bit (the
-> > inch long ones) and use a hacksaw to cut a slot
-> > across the center of the tip, just deep enough for
-> > the pin to not bottom out, and just wide enough to
-> > clear the pin so the bit won't collapse inward and
-> > strip the points.
->  
->   Good idea. Thanks. Although these screws are
->  pretty small. I'll have to see if I have a hacksaw
->  blade fine enough.

 IF the Torx Screw is Black forget it. Those are VERY HARD material and
will have little ot NO luck cutting them with a hack saw. Now a thin
cutting blade in a Dremmel Tool may work. But you would still have a
prolbem with the 6/32 screws. They have a Very small Head. 
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