Hi guys.
I'm in the middle of modifying my Harley Benton Fusion, and am at a roadblock. The plate which holds the output jack can't be removed because the screw holding it in is rounded off. It has come from the factory already moreorless circular, and I fear any attempts I make to remove the screw will either do nothing or make it worse.
How would I go about removing it? I obviously can't just drill around it as there is the metal jack plate there, and it is sat too flush to try and get pliers on it or to try and prize it out. Is it just a write off at this point?
Just so people are aware. I have no idea what any of these words mean.
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But that might not work here.
If you can't prise it out by leveraging the jack plate, I'd be inclined to drill it out. Use a metal drill bit, use the rounded-off head of the existing screw as your punched centre, and then drill it out.
I doubt that the screw will be particularly hard - it'll probably disintegrate quite easily - and not very long.
You can then either fill the hole and use similarly sized (but better quality) replacement screws, or just use slightly bigger screws to re-secure the jack plate.
If you're lucky there will be enough screw sticking out for you to get pliers onto it
What to do:
Drill off the *head only*. Use a drill bit which is just a little larger than the shaft of the screw, and go just far enough that the head comes off as a ring. Now you can remove the plate, and you should have the stump of the screw sticking up just far enough to grip with pliers - or sometimes wirecutters can give you a better grip (but don't cut it right off!). You should be able to wind it out leaving the hole undamaged.
If this fails then you will need to either enlarge the hole around it slightly until you can get down far enough to grip it - if you don't go too mad it will still be covered by the plate - or you can heat the screw with a soldering iron, which will make it expand and push the wood back, then as it cools the metal will shrink faster and the screw should come loose enough to wind out.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
If only the pre-wired wiring kit I'd been sold actually worked. No sound from 4 of 5 positions.
Time to step away from the tools and leave it alone methinks.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The seller has agreed to take it back and fix it.