How does one remove really stripped screws from a wall stud when they're flush with something? (I really jacked the screws when I installed my tv mount... :/ )
Twist in the proper direction
Are you turning the right way? Remember, "Righty tighty, Lefty loosy" (which never made sense to me). Most screws are right-handed threads, so you'll turn them anti(counter)-clockwise to remove them. In some situations left-hand thread screws are used (usually to ...
@ChrisCudmore Yes and no. The problem was the instructions for the wall-mount said a 1/8" pilot hole would be appropriate, I stepped it up after attempts to find that It barely got the screws in after I pilotted 5/16, the instructions were just terribly wrong (the screws were obviously too large for a 1/8 pilot hole)
Combined with my stupidity, when I saw them getting stripped I should have not drove them in anyway, rather should have just gone to home depot with them and asked for identical others
@JimmyHoffa Yeah, that's why I always eye-ball the pilot bit against the screw shaft. I don't trust instructions for pilot holes. They often have it wrong.
I have wood screws whose heads are stripped from trying to remove them with a drill. The drill (or screwdrivers) can't grip the heads anymore. What can i use to remove these screws easily?
@Tester101 Thanks, I thought there was something like this but I didn't know what it were off hand. I'm sure it'll still need a drill likely more powerful than the one I used to begin with.
but I don't need to worry about that until I replace the TV. On the bright side as tight as those screws went in, that TV is quite safely mounted.
@ChrisCudmore Yeah, my wife's advice is usually "Please please call someone", that would have been helpful when I stripped the hell out of those screws.
I have a wall open in the center of my house. I am going to run some 14-2 up it and and to about 5 feet from my panel, leaving plenty of extra wire to hook up in a few months. On the other end I am going to just leave about 30 extra feet in the attic. Is this code?
I will be installing pot li...
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how to use Java-style throws keyword in C#?
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But having to wrap thread.sleep(1000) with a try ... catch (InterruptedException ie){} block is just nuts. Like there's a bloody thing I could do to fix that. Might as well crash the app.
But IO classes should have checked exceptions to force you to handle common issues. -
@Tester101 I get that, but a part of me would hope the other sites would actually have attracted their own community from google such as SO did rather than just attracting people from SO.
@ChrisCudmore Yeah, FGITW is annoying; that's why I'm mainly on Programmers.SE
conversely, i still find it to be an incredible pain in the a** changing the GMT offset when someone from california visits my site on a server with the time set to EDT. no big deal on discussions and blog posts; but 4 hours is a hell of a lot of a difference when an live event either starts at 6pm or 2pm for a student
@Tester101 With the middle name of riddle, his eventual villainy was inevitable. I've thought about doing that however I've grown rather attached to my gravatar over the years. It's quite a pleasant one I think :)
Is there anything tricky about building a bearing wall around a front yard to level it?
It seems like back breaking labor that uses all the facilities you learned when you were 10, which means I should be able to do it, but I don't know what I don't know
guess it depends on exactly how I want to lay it. I have a big cement porch (Ugh.. no such thing as uncracked cement slabs over 5 years old in Colorado..) which has stairs going down maybe 4-5' to the driveway, I want to elevate and flatten my front yard but I'll probably bring it up 1 or 2 ' below the top of my front porch depending on how many steps I want down from the porch to the level part.
@ChrisCudmore ahh you anchor it, so long as it crosses the point of the pressure towards the outside, it'll be pushed down or the opposite direction if far enough
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Twist in the proper direction
Are you turning the right way? Remember, "Righty tighty, Lefty loosy" (which never made sense to me). Most screws are right-handed threads, so you'll turn them anti(counter)-clockwise to remove them. In some situations left-hand thread screws are used (usually to ...
I have wood screws whose heads are stripped from trying to remove them with a drill. The drill (or screwdrivers) can't grip the heads anymore. What can i use to remove these screws easily?
I have a wall open in the center of my house. I am going to run some 14-2 up it and and to about 5 feet from my panel, leaving plenty of extra wire to hook up in a few months. On the other end I am going to just leave about 30 extra feet in the attic. Is this code?
I will be installing pot li...
Possible Duplicate:
how to use Java-style throws keyword in C#?
i have a function where an exception occurs
say for example
private void functionName() throws Exception
{
// some code that might throw an exception
}
thanks!
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