How to remove drive motor screws after loctite?

I assembled my Maslow months ago and followed the directions to use the blue loctite on the screws holding the belt motors to the spool holder. Now I am trying to disassemble the motors so I can fix the DIR pin ground issue on them. However, because of the loctite and M3 screws, I’m not able to remove the screws before the head strips out. I have tried heating with a soldering iron, but haven’t had success getting the screws to loosen them up. Now the heads are pretty stripped on some of them.

Any thoughts on how to get these disassembled? I’m not convinced that if I drilled the heads off that I’d have enough screw body left to get a vise grip on them either. When I assemble again, I’m definitely not using the loctite.

Does this help

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Thank you! I hadn’t remembered that previous thread. I’ll give it a try.

Bob

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error 82 is saying that it couldn’t create a file, so it may be that it didn’t
save the results.

see Alarm and Error Codes | Wiki.js

you do have the values, so you can try entering them directly

David Lang

sorry, wrong thread

I also wanted to remove the motors to access and modify or replace the encoder board after the belt extended and chewed up a belt. Will attempt Tim S solution but it is a very small access and I am not keen on trusting solder bridges anyway.
If I could get the screws out I would use a locking washer instead of the Loctite to secure the motors.

Credit belongs to ntbee on removing the bearing to access the solder points. I’m just a forums troll that doesn’t yet have the M4 but I am still using the Maslow Classic

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I had a super stripped screw that I just couldn’t get out (wasn’t a loctite screw though). After trying everything, I finally put a tiny drop of super glue on the end of a bit (or the allen wrench included), then carefully put it in the screwhead. After setting for a minute, it had enough grab to finally get it moving.

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I’ve had great luck with these too!

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