Wii Tri Wing Screwdriver Alternative

So, just to put this up for anyone needing this in the future: I just took apart a DS Lite with the same evil three-pronged screws, luckily only 4 and they weren't too tight. I couldn't get them to turn with a small hex screwdriver at first, so I rammed in two (yes, two screwdrivers at the same time) small flathead screwdrivers and fidgeted around until I could spin the screw a little bit, about 1.5 rotations, after which forceful application of a hex screwdriver managed to get it out. The screw design is quite devious, because if you try it with a normal flathead, the flathead rotates inside the screw towards the different points of the three-pointed stars. Chick corea spain transcription pdf viewer. There is no way to counter this with one screwdriver, but with two small flatheads, both about the same size as one point of the star, you can use one screwdriver to keep the other one stuck inside a single prong. I could try to describe how to do this exactly, but it's quite impossible to see the screw while you're poking at it with two screwdrivers so any actual tactics are out of the question.

Just poke around and try spinning both screwdrivers until it feels like you're turning the screw. You have to spin both screwdrivers as if they are one giant screwdriver, so not both screwdrivers individually. After about 1.5 rotations a single hex or perhaps Philips screwdriver that fits tightly inside the center hole of the three-pronged screw should be enough to get it all the way out when pressed down onto the screw tightly. I had troubles with secure srews many times but always found the right tool or a way to remove the damn things. Microbiology ebook free.

When it comes to these thre pronged screws it helps to know what tool you actually need. The smaller variants have been introduced by Nintendo in their consoles, I think the original Gameboy was the first device that made a lot of use of these special srews.

Tri Wing Screwdrivers. Y-shape Tri-Wing Screwdriver 0.6x25mm for iPhone 7/7 Plus/Apple Watch. Gen Wii & DS Lite Tri-Wing Triwing Screwdriver Tool.

To get the right tool search for a 'Tri wing screwdriver' - this is the correct term for them. Quite easy to find in different sizes and qualities on Ebay and basically all good electronics stores (mostly in sets with other security bits). Without the right tool it is often impossible to remove them - that's why they are designed with three wings.

In most cases they have not been tightend up hard but instead some thread locking glue was put on, if you encounter one of those with the wrong tool it usually end in drilling out the screw. I do recommend getting a tri-wing screwdriver set for the job but if it is a one off there is another way that can help: It requires to be able to remove at least one of the screws, if they are reachable it is possible to undo them with pliers. Drill a hole into a piece of steel that fits the screw (drop in). Now use a copper nail or thick piece of copper wire and heat it up to glowing temp. Let it cool down - this softens the metal. Using a little hammer or similar 'press' the copper into the screw head. It won't make a perfect fit, especially on tiny screws, but if you get a half-decent shape it should do the trick.

Heat the copper again till glowing but now drop it into cold water - the copper will be hard again and should allow you to remove the other screws if not too tight. My need to open a blower for an inlatable slide, to troubleshoot why it does not work, is fastened together with many security screws that require a security bit that has the shape of a triangle, to insert or extract the screws. I have a couple of sets of security bits, and one of them is a set anyone can buy at Harbor Freight. Trouble.is, not one bit in the set has a three prong or triangle shaped bit whatsoever. Just the normal sizes of torx bits, spanner bits, square bits, flat head bits, philips bits and believe it or not round bits. Not one trianglular bit. My othe bit set, same story.

So, my need for a triangle bit to extract many triangular bit scews, prompted me to search online for such a bit, and this long and apparently old thread popped up as the first hit. Not one conversation in this lengthy thread involves the triangle shaped head of a security bit such as what I need was described.

Of course, I did resort to using the smallest flat head that would fit one side of the triangle recessed in the screw head, and carefully extracted two of them. What a pain in the ***! I've got many more that that, to get to the actual motor, to see with my meter if there is a short somewhere. I think I've narrowed the fault to the circuit board insde the electric plug that has a reset button on it similar to a GFI outlet. I've ohmed out the connections from the electric cord to the toggle switch, and to the FET, or huge capacitor.