STUPID SCREWS [[MOAN]]

[Sonia406]

Yes I am going to moan again
It seems I can't even screw properly..............

Stupid iPhones have such stupidly small screws and now I have just stripped one of the screws on the cover just under the camera and flash unit
Obviously this is a very delicate procedure and being a woman I was doomed from the start........ but for f*ck sake, why use such small bastard screws that you can't grip easily? I have the proper tools in my hand so it's not as if I can blame the tools... I have mashed this screw driver head now, so wait for parts to come and more tools....
Anyone else taken apart an iPhone (I have the 4s) and stripped a screw head? What have you best done to remove the offending screw? If it wasn't such a delicate procedure and with an Motherboard so close to it - I would use Brut force to move the bastard but I don't want to f*ck up the phone

[rapport25]

Had to strip a few phones. Mrs Rappy loves dropping phones in water
Have you tried a small flat blade?

[Sonia406]

Had to strip a few phones. Mrs Rappy loves dropping phones in water
Have you tried a small flat blade?

I don't have one to hand....... I will try and have a look for one small enough... might have to wait a few days for the new kit to arrive

[steve_earwig]

Hammer and chisel

[puggy]

warm it up with a blow torch

[trem1]

see now i thought this was going to be a thread about past relationships

[steve_earwig]

I was expecting it to be car-related

warm it up with a blow torch

Aye, that'll do the trick

[Sonia406]

see now i thought this was going to be a thread about past relationships

Having given my fella the heeve ho last night - it could easily turn into one?

Anyway, seriously? Blow torch near the iPhone - I do want a working iPhone at the end of it you know

[steve_earwig]

Had to strip a few phones. Mrs Rappy loves dropping phones in water
Have you tried a small flat blade?

I just remembered, last year we were at the wife's aunts' and her cousin dropped her ifone down the bog There then followed a big panic because she was out of touch with her mates (mid 30's, married, daughter, still trying to be a teenager )

[Sonia406]

Had to strip a few phones. Mrs Rappy loves dropping phones in water
Have you tried a small flat blade?

I just remembered, last year we were at the wife's aunts' and her cousin dropped her ifone down the bog There then followed a big panic because she was out of touch with her mates (mid 30's, married, daughter, still trying to be a teenager )

Admittedly this phone has been on the wrong end of receiving some WHITE STUFF and that's why I need to change the loudspeaker unit.... I thought having it on vibrate was safe...

[teamster1975]

[Bailes1992]

Try to grind a small groove in the head of the screw so you can use a flat head. I had to take a dremel to my iPhone 4S 3 days after I bought it

[Sonia406]

Try to grind a small groove in the head of the screw so you can use a flat head. I had to take a dremel to my iPhone 4S 3 days after I bought it

Ok I shall try and get hold of a small flat head too.. my flat head isn't small enough
What is a dremel, and what 3 days after buying it?

[Sonia406]

I'm not saying anything

[teamster1975]

Neither am I, always the gentleman me