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Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled(lemmy.world)

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Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn’t rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn’t unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

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nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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Grinding a notch into a flathead screwdriver is annoying but it’ll still work fine as a flathead even afterwards. I would probably just grind the bulge out of the screw though.

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lemmyhavesome@lemmy.world
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In this case the screw was at the bottom of a narrow slot, and they only found it after breaking things.

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MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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They didn’t find the screw by breaking the blender. They were able to reach it with a screwdriver before that, just not the right one. They broke it because they were too impatient to find a way to look into the hole and then find, make, or buy the right tool.

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