special screw driver NOT needed Ever again

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just did this experiment...with a plastic pen
melted with a lighter...and stick it on the screw(security, cps2 snes...so on...i put a little wd40 on the screw to coated..so it wont stick too hard ) let it cool down then unscrew it :chimp: :chimp:
 
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Nice ghetto tool mod racecar. :lolz: I have known several people to do this when they did not have the right tool on hand for a job. Do yourself a favor and get the real thing whenever your can cause as the saying goes, "Nothing beats the real thing." :D
 
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I bought a load of them when I used to take all my consoles to bits and spray them, change LED's and generally piss about.
You can't beat having a nice set of security bits. :tickled:

Well..... you probably can beat it..
 
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It's a well known method for SNES screws but it doesn't always work, sometimes the screws are really tight... you must be lucky.

For torx screws (CPS2) it's pretty useless as a flathead screwdriver works better and on the other hand torx screwdrivers are pretty common now.
 
racecar

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MKL said:
It's a well known method for SNES screws but it doesn't always work, sometimes the screws are really tight... you must be lucky.

For torx screws (CPS2) it's pretty useless as a flathead screwdriver works better and on the other hand torx screwdrivers are pretty common now.
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the cps2 one has the little thing that prevent the torx to go it :rolleyes: ...that's why i used the melted pen on my cps2's :chimp:
 
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It's always nice to have the set of bits though, you never know when you run into one that's just a bit too tight... ;)
 
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Just sitting here wondering how good that Original Sacher Torte tastes..
-BB
 
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BIG BEAR said:
Just sitting here wondering how good that Original Sacher Torte tastes..
-BB
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Yeah, I was wondering about that as well....

Pretty random thing to have in a sig.
 
MKL

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BIG BEAR said:
Just sitting here wondering how good that Original Sacher Torte tastes..
-BB
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It's the Neo Geo of cakes...
 
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racecar said:
the cps2 one has the little thing that prevent the torx to go it :rolleyes: ...that's why i used the melted pen on my cps2's :chimp:
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:spock: What little thing? I've opened CPS2 with a torx screwdriver without any trouble.

And it is handy to have a set of security bits/scredrivers... some days ago a technician came to install our new dishwaher, and when he saw the screws that came with it he said he couldn't work with them... I had a look and they were torx-20, so I gave him my screwdriver, it worked and he had the WTF? look :kekeke:
 
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so its old and exspensive? :drool_2:
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Yup, it was created in 1832 and for a cake it's pretty expensive, around 40 dollars. Living close to the Austrian border I often make do with unoriginal ones (the bootlegs :tickled: ) that are still very good. But I avoid the cheap ones I find in Italy, they're like inferior portz... :angry:
 
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MKL said:
Yup, it was created in 1832 and for a cake it's pretty expensive, around 40 dollars. Living close to the Austrian border I often make do with unoriginal ones (the bootlegs :tickled: ) that are still very good. But I avoid the cheap ones I find in Italy, they're like inferior portz... :angry:
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That reminds me.

A man was in world war 2, and when he was occupying austria after the war, he had this fabulous bavarian cake at a small cafe in a village near the border. After the war, he went on to be a successful person until his old age. Before he died, he thought he should have another piece of that bavarian cake. So he gets onto a sea liner bound for France to start the train trip to this little village. A boiler room accident sinks the ship, and he still craves this lovely cake from his child hood. So he swims to the shore, hitchhikes to this small bavarian cafe, goes in, ask the waiter for a slice, and the waiter said, "I'm sorry, we're out of cake today." The guy said, "That's fine, I'll just have the pie instead."
 
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I'll have to try this technique.

taitai, beautiful story.
 
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