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Re: OOPS . . .

This exact thing happened to me ... It has to be one of the most annoying
things to happen ... the tolerances that the screws were tightened at
clearly outweigh the strength of the materials involved.  Anyway, two of
them had to be removed using horrendous means ... good luck


>Hey Jamman afficionados:
>
>Got my box . . . finally
>
>got my Visionsoft chips for the 32 sec upgrade
>
>started to crack the case--working very slowly as I recognized the soft,
>tiny Phillsps head screws that manufzcturors love to "tamper-proof" thier
>boxes with.
>
>you guessed it . . .two stripped screws (center bottom, and back 
>panel--the
>latter in particular had been death-toorqued by the assembler)
>
>any ideas (besides carving a notch in the screw heads with a Dremel 
>tool--I
>don't want to do this)
>
>in every dream home, a heartache
>
>Tom
>Tom Lambrecht  hideo@concentric.net

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