Stripped screw in Macbook

[Darkbandit]

I stripped a screw in my macbook and I took it to the Apple store to see what they could do about it. They tried to extract it, however they stripped it even worse. Anyone have any options?

 

[T5BRICK]

I've heard of people placing a rubber band over the stripped screw and then pushing the screwdriver into that. It should give you some extra friction.

Otherwise you may have to use an easy-out or drill the screw out an re-tap the hole.

 

[JosephBergdoll]

There are numerous things you can do:

The rubber band trick sounds like it could work. Another solution is superglue/zapagap/whatever'ing the screwdriver into the head, and then unscrewing that way. If your screw is backed out a bit, take a dremel and cut a slit in the head so you can use a small flathead to unscrew it. If all else fails, I've had luck with drilling the head off (using a larger bit than the shaft) and then removing the shaft with needlenose pliers. I'd try that only as a last ditch effort, though, and even then with these tiny screws I'm not sure if that's a viable option.

 

[throAU]

If you can find a drill and bit small enough you could try an "easy out".


How did you strip it? over-tightening, or wrong tool?

 

[donANT]

I recently had the same issue and used a needle nose plyer to get it out. You can also try putting a flat head screw driver under the actual screw and was able to unscrew it that way. Anytime you encounter an issue like this try to avoid taking it to Apple..

 

[Silmarien]

What if I stripped the screw on the superdrive thats inside that small hole? How can I take the screw out if I cant have access to pry it out with pliers, flat screw driver, glue or a dremel tool?

 

[Arnezie]

Super glue on tip of screw driver wait 30 seconds to bond , unscrew

 

[alphaod]

I use drill the screw head and use a screw extractor to take out the stripped screw head.