Removing a damaged screw?

[c_marriott]

I want to open my laptop up but the screw is too damaged to get out. It's turned into more of a circle shape rather than a Philips head.

How do I get it out without breaking the laptop? hopefully you can see it from the image

[Pugs501]

Get Pliers and hope for the best

[Norman_the_Owl]

Get Pliers and hope for the best

QFT

 

grab around the edge and hope it isn't too tight

[c_marriott]

Get Pliers and hope for the best

Theres no room to get grip of it with pliers, tired tweezers too

[dadasmithywinkle]

Theres no room to get grip of it with pliers, tired tweezers too

Try using a flat head.

[Master Disaster]

You need to cut a ridge in the screw head and use a flathead screwdriver to get it out.

Don't ask me how though, sure there's an engineer around who can tell you the best way.

[Guest]

Using something to try and engrave a pit for a flat head, or try using a flathead and just scraping into it to create one. 

[C0LL0SS0S]

get a drill and drill the screw out

[TheKDub]

Theres no room to get grip of it with pliers, tired tweezers too

 

Take a rubber band and stick it over the head of the screwdriver, then push on it with a bit of force and try removing it.

If that doesn't work, try drilling it out, or use one of those screw extractor things that have the threading reversed, so when you have the drill in reverse it digs into the screw and removes it like that.

[Master Disaster]

get a drill and drill the screw out

Not a good idea, behind the metal is plastic, go a bit to far and your through the keyboard and out the top.

[C0LL0SS0S]

Not a good idea, behind the metal is plastic, go a bit to far and your through the keyboard and out the top.

Well if he's carefull enough and chooses the right bit it should be kinda safe

[humpingpandas]

Not a good idea, behind the metal is plastic, go a bit to far and your through the keyboard and out the top.

 

If you're impatient and go as fast as you can, this will happen. But if you take your time and remotely know what you're doing, drilling out a screw is a pretty basic task.

[AnonymousGuy]

Get a flathead (or a metal pick if you have one), wedge it in as far from the center of the screw as you can, and hit it with a hammer to impact the screw out.  You're going to have really shitty torque transfer though so it's not going to be easy.

 

If you use a pick it will dig in to the metal and give it better grip.  A knife blade tip could maybe do it, but it will probably mess up the tip.

[W-L]

I want to open my laptop up but the screw is too damaged to get out. It's turned into more of a circle shape rather than a Philips head.

How do I get it out without breaking the laptop? hopefully you can see it from the image

 

As some others have said since it's a fairly large screw head I'd use a metal file to cut a flat head slot to unscrew it but please use the correct sized bits for the screw, this should rarely happen.

[airdeano]

left-handed drill bit in a reversible drill.

the opposite rotation along with the drill bit could unscrew it without outer damage.

if the screw does not come out with that method, now use a larger bit to remove

the head of the damaged screw. remove secured parts and use pliers/vice grips

to remove remanence.

[c_marriott]

Going to try all of the suggestions later today, I'll let you all know

[LukaP]

get a drill and drill the screw out

QFT. there are also drill bits made for this, basically they cut into the screw in the opposite direction and insert a special new screw into that hole, then you just unscrew and voila

[c_marriott]

Managed to drill through it, still a little bit left but managed to get a new screw in so should do for now. Thanks for the suggestions