Why do these screws have to be SO hard to remove? Why did half the heads strip out in trying to open the arms during the upgrade? WTF MAN!?!?!?! I have purchased 2 screw extractors (different brands) and both broke on the first extraction. I had to fire up the drill press on the lowest speed and still ran into problems. If it weren’t fo rme being so stuborn right now I would throw my hands up a quit.
Vent over, little frustrated with doing the 4.1 upgrade. the screws on the belt arms had almost half strip out, not the all of them screw heads screw, some it is the bolt free spinning with the head. At this point I am carefully breaking the belt arms to get at the inner components. This process involves a creative use of propane torch, razor blade, and pliers. I am so tired of this…can’t wait to get it done and fired back up…
Why do these screws have to be SO hard to remove? Why did half the heads strip out in trying to open the arms during the upgrade? WTF MAN!?!?!?! I have purchased 2 screw extractors (different brands) and both broke on the first extraction. I had to fire up the drill press on the lowest speed and still ran into problems. If it weren’t fo rme being so stuborn right now I would throw my hands up a quit.
did you use loctite on all the screws, that would make them harder to remove.
the heads stripping is why the replacements are torx bits.
Vent over, little frustrated with doing the 4.1 upgrade. the screws on the
belt arms had almost half strip out, not the all of them screw heads screw,
some it is the bolt free spinning with the head. At this point I am carefully
breaking the belt arms to get at the inner components. This process involves
a creative use of propane torch, razor blade, and pliers. I am so tired of
this…can’t wait to get it done and fired back up…
if the nuts spin, try using a small straight screwdriver to jam between the nut
and the plastic.
the new arm parts have a tighter fit for the nuts (which makes it harder to
install but easier to remove if the plastic holds up)
Oh my gosh, I hadn’t read ahead on the 4.1 assembly instructions…and threw out the bearings along with the original arms. So now it’s time to order a new set of those…blah
Okay, here we are several months later and several walk away moments passed.
I ended up having to replace the lower clamp plate and clamp, the spacers between both clamp plates (trying to remove the screws attached to the clamp plate broke the thin wall of the holes just before the nuts/screw broke free of each other and where able to be removed…), the sled, and the clear acrylic dust cover. Prior to damaging the sled I had bought a replacement set of the linear rod clamps, then cracked the sled when trying to remove them.
On the plus side, I took the opportunity to replace all the original screws that I could with the new torx head screws. I also only used the screws with the blue loktight pre coated on spaces that I won’t remove them, like the internal screw/nuts that connect the two halves of the uprights.
Overall happy with the result, glad to be finished, and looking forward to the next 2 weeks where I can finish building my folding frame.
