The suggestions above are quite good and one of them should work. Ha, before even opening the thread I was thinking "I bet that's on a Felt IA." SuperDave of course has removed thousands of these without stripping, which he likes to use as an example of how great these screws are for the purpose they serve (why then does Felt include an entire extra bag of them?). The mechanic stripped the 2mm screw and no I can't get them out.ĭoes anybody have any pointers or experience with this kind of situation? I'd love to not pay $75 to have 4 bolts removed.Īlso since it happening to me I'm curious if there's a way to replace these 2mm screws with something else? Anybody out there hacked anything on their IA? In doing so I noticed my last service job had a fault. I've got to remove the brake faring on my Felt IA to charge my Di2 system. PushThePace wrote:Not a mechanic by any means but I am attempting to do this myself. Options that were suggested to me but that didn't work. I ended up with a small circular dremmel drill cutting the thing out along with the surrounding barrel. Ironmike78 wrote:I feel your pain - I did this to my Zipp 404 preload bolt. May add up to a lot more on an expensive carbon bike! I tried numbers 1 and 2 and by the time number 3 was suggested I had made enough of a mess of the bolt I just got angry and cut the thing out along with the surrounds. Obviously be careful with where any excess glue goes otherwise you may end up properly stuck - no pun intended! Let the glue set and then you may be able to extract it depending on how wedged in there it is. Options that were suggested to me but that didn't work.ġ) Drill a slice into it and use a flat blade screwdriver to then remove.ģ) Find an old 2mm allen key that you don't need or can afford to lose, put superglue on the end of it and then push it into the threaded bolt. I feel your pain - I did this to my Zipp 404 preload bolt.
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