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Internets, help. (For serious/no jokes please.)
Eight incredibly stuck computer guts type screws (the smallish ones, not the big huge heavy ones), starting to strip, holding a dying hard drive into a laptop (Dell Studio 1535).
I only have one screwdriver because both good Phillips ones in the house have dropped off the face of the earth simultaneously, and while it seems to be making okay contact with the screw bits they still won't budge. Not even a little, so it's not that they're stuck all partway out/uneven or something. I can't really apply anything lubricating/wouldn't know what, because there are laptop guts in the very immediate vicinity that might not appreciate it. Same with trying to heat or cool things drastically--the frame they're wedged into is metal too anyway. They're the thin head that lies flat against surface kind, but of course, so gripping the outside edge to wrangle them out is out too--plus two of them are out of pinching range in a narrow spot between drive cage edge and laptop side, making this even more worrying/frustrating.
Is there some clever screw-removing trick I'm missing that I can use here? Or some Phillips type screwdriver I can obtain in a very short amount of time that can deal with stripping/stuck screws better than most?
(edit) Three out of four of the extra stubborn ones out via the hit the top of the screwdriver really hard with a pliers method (thank you Google/YouTube/MetaFilter) even if I used a jar of Tamiya paint instead of a pliers (same difference). Fourth is almost entirely stripped and still won't budge, so I am giving my wrist a break and whining here. They were glued. asdfjkl;.
Eight incredibly stuck computer guts type screws (the smallish ones, not the big huge heavy ones), starting to strip, holding a dying hard drive into a laptop (Dell Studio 1535).
I only have one screwdriver because both good Phillips ones in the house have dropped off the face of the earth simultaneously, and while it seems to be making okay contact with the screw bits they still won't budge. Not even a little, so it's not that they're stuck all partway out/uneven or something. I can't really apply anything lubricating/wouldn't know what, because there are laptop guts in the very immediate vicinity that might not appreciate it. Same with trying to heat or cool things drastically--the frame they're wedged into is metal too anyway. They're the thin head that lies flat against surface kind, but of course, so gripping the outside edge to wrangle them out is out too--plus two of them are out of pinching range in a narrow spot between drive cage edge and laptop side, making this even more worrying/frustrating.
Is there some clever screw-removing trick I'm missing that I can use here? Or some Phillips type screwdriver I can obtain in a very short amount of time that can deal with stripping/stuck screws better than most?
(edit) Three out of four of the extra stubborn ones out via the hit the top of the screwdriver really hard with a pliers method (thank you Google/YouTube/MetaFilter) even if I used a jar of Tamiya paint instead of a pliers (same difference). Fourth is almost entirely stripped and still won't budge, so I am giving my wrist a break and whining here. They were glued. asdfjkl;.