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for some reason i don’t know, i put the screw on the bottom side of the mac and try to screw it. Then i realized that the screw for some reason wasn’t going in place. So, i tried to screw backside to pull it out. But now it turns and it doesn’t go in or out. I tried to pull with a plier but no result. Any ideas how to pull out the damaged screw? It was one of the long phillips screws in the bottom. Tha laptop is a A1286. Now i am able to open it at all…
Thank you for putting together this list. It’s the most thorough one I found. However, I had already tried all of these up thru #7 except for the Dremel & precision screw extractors, so I didn’t exactly go in the order listed. But considering I had already bought & tried the same SEP’s you linked above, Super Glue, Krazy Glue, and a product called Screw Grab, along with some other suggestions from youtube how to vids like twisting with a pentalobe driver at an angle, I was not going to buy a whole Dremel tool set for 1 measly cored out Mac laptop superdrive bracket screw that I may very well never use again. So I tried #8 using the drill I already have which got the stripped screw head off, but then how are you supposed to grab the shaft with pliers if the top of the shaft is flush to the top of the metal housing of the laptop which it’s screwed into?
