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Are these two screws straight slot or philips? Trying to help a buddy out as he doesn't want to "bugger" up the screws using the wrong screwdriver. Gun is less than 20 years old. Bob Shaffer | ||
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Should be Phillips, put some vaseline aroung the screwdriver tip so you don't bugger up the holes. If that don't work, use a flat one; pretty simple to figure it out. Jim Kobe 10841 Oxborough Ave So Bloomington MN 55437 952.884.6031 Professional member American Custom Gunmakers Guild | |||
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Not sure about the vaseline - won't that make it harder for the screwdriver tip to get a good hold on the screw heads? And do you mean a narrow flat one? Bob Shaffer | |||
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If you have any doubt, use a scibe as a probe and you can easily tell if it is a filister head or a cross-point. Use some sort of lubricant on the screwdriver and use the smallest diameter shaft you have available. As long as you hold firm pressure on the screwdriver you won't cause problems using lubricant to protect the rubber. John Farner If you haven't, please join the NRA! | |||
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Just took one off two days ago. It is a Phillips, but a rather small one (#2 was too big to get a good bite.) | |||
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OK, here's the story - buddy couldn't get ANY philips screwdrivers to work so ended up BARELY getting one screw out with a narrow straight driver and found the *&%)(^$@ to be a SQUARE drive type that "kinda" looks like some oddball philips might work too (I've seen the type). Had to grind a square drive tip on another old screwdriver and barely got the other &^$^*&#% screw out. Both screw heads were "buggered up" by that time. What kind of idiot thought up that idea! Even the screw pitch seems odd - thanks a lot Ream-ing-tongue. He replaced them both with some "normal" screws. Oh, also had to cut/grind/drill out the rubber to get better access for the screws. Bob Shaffer | |||
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that sounds like a roberts or robinson or is robertson head that is common in canada? Are you sure it came from the factory that way? Mike Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Yes, he got it brand new in the box. Bob Shaffer | |||
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I heard /read some where that they had gone to square drive screws on recoil pads at the factory | |||
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The vasoline or grease will prevent the rubber from tearing when you turn the screwdriver. If you don't use any you will FU the pad & it will look aweful where the screwdriver went in. Jim gave you sound advice.  Doug Humbarger NRA Life member Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 72'73. Yankee Station Try to look unimportant. Your enemy might be low on ammo. | |||
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Didn't really care about the pad (which can be replaced) - problem was getting the &*%&&** screws out. Bob Shaffer | |||
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