Need help identifying a scew bit and where to purchase quickly
June 11, 2018 10:01 AM Subscribe
Can you please help identify the following screw type and tell me where I can purchase a bit that will unlock said screw? Here is the link to the image of the screw: https://imgur.com/a/yEwc85C.
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I have an RV and the 7 pin cord fell out and dragged 200 miles ruining the cable that goes from the car to the Tekonsha Prodigy brake controller. I bought a new cable but unfortunately the box has these locked screws. I went to home depot and bought Klein Tools Magnetic Screwer with 32-Piece Tamperpoof bit set and none fit ( https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-Magnetic-Screwdriver-with-32-Piece-Bit-Set-32510/100648026 ).
Please help - going on a trip next week with the kids and need to get this fix asap.
Thank you!!
I have an RV and the 7 pin cord fell out and dragged 200 miles ruining the cable that goes from the car to the Tekonsha Prodigy brake controller. I bought a new cable but unfortunately the box has these locked screws. I went to home depot and bought Klein Tools Magnetic Screwer with 32-Piece Tamperpoof bit set and none fit ( https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-Magnetic-Screwdriver-with-32-Piece-Bit-Set-32510/100648026 ).
Please help - going on a trip next week with the kids and need to get this fix asap.
Thank you!!
Best answer: That’s a five-point star tamperproof screw — Torx are six-point. Here’s a bit set on amazon that should work: Silverhill 5 Point Star Tamper Proof Bit Set, 10 Piece
posted by bradf at 10:17 AM on June 11, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by bradf at 10:17 AM on June 11, 2018 [4 favorites]
I'm pretty sure I bought a set of these from Home Depot to repair a laptop. Take that picture in (or better yet, the screw+assembly itself) and anyone there can find the correct bit for you. I checked bradf's suggestion and found this at homedepot.com. Also notice your picture has 5 points, while the set you bought has 6 (from what I can see).
posted by Pig Tail Orchestra at 11:19 AM on June 11, 2018
posted by Pig Tail Orchestra at 11:19 AM on June 11, 2018
In an emergency I have had some success using a small good quality flat screwdriver to bridge the lobes and/or breaking out the center pin and using a slightly wider flat screwdriver with this type of screw.
posted by tronec at 12:01 PM on June 11, 2018
posted by tronec at 12:01 PM on June 11, 2018
Best answer: You can't do the flat screwdriver trick with a five-point screw, unfortunately. bradf has it right.
posted by pipeski at 12:11 PM on June 11, 2018
posted by pipeski at 12:11 PM on June 11, 2018
Response by poster: Thanks everyone!
@SoFuckingFuture - Yep incompatible. Did not fit right at all.
@Bradf - that looks like it will do the trick! Have purchased. Thank you so much!!
posted by bleucube at 12:57 PM on June 11, 2018
@SoFuckingFuture - Yep incompatible. Did not fit right at all.
@Bradf - that looks like it will do the trick! Have purchased. Thank you so much!!
posted by bleucube at 12:57 PM on June 11, 2018
If you need to fix it today, go to Home Depot and buy a Dremel and cut a slot in the screw making it into a normal flat headed screw.
posted by gregr at 1:11 PM on June 11, 2018
posted by gregr at 1:11 PM on June 11, 2018
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Why didn't the set that you tried not work? Was it just the size, or were the bits actually incompatible?
posted by so fucking future at 10:02 AM on June 11, 2018