Frustrated and ready to flip a table

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Just a little need to vent…

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…

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TebrynNym wrote:

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)

David Lang

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David, thanks for the suggestions.

No I didn’t lock tight anything other than the motor screws.

I did try the small screwdriver trick, either there wasn’t enough room to fit one, or they rounded the nuts off more than originally.

Ended up being a big mess and I used a blowtorch/hot blade to cut the screws out.

Just finished setting screws and nuts in the new arms before finishing for the night.

Thanks for the help

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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

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