Stripped Screws

Hello guys, again. If you saw my last post (small parts) you know that I own a 98C, with some external modifications. But there's just one thing keeping me from putting better stuff under the hood (like a new power tube, I need one desperately) and that would be the screw in the foregrip is stripped due to cheaper than dirt allen wrenches and me not holding the allen wrench tight enough to torque the screw out. I went up to PB Outfitters and they said I'd have to drill the screw out: but that would mess up the threading in the foregrip and might also do more damage to the gun, and that they  couldn't drill it out because they have tried to before and have broken many drill bits in the process. What would be appropriate for getting this screw out? Drill press, maybe? There's also the fact that  the screw is quite literally stuck in the gun; I had issues with the screw becoming loose in-game and back then, being the noobish  that I was, I used some sort of adhesive to keep the screw in rather than getting the foregrip screw hole rethreaded. So, that's my situation. I've tried oops to get the adhesive off, but it's been on there so long that it wont come off. Please help.

The adhesive, Mack.

I agree with Mack, I would try the screw removal tool. If it doesn't work, you can drill it out. I would start with a smaller drill bit and use it on the side where the nut is in the receiver. If you look closely, there is actually a nut stuck into the receiver half that the bolt screws into. You can just drill it out and replace it with:

Starloric wrote: I went up to PB Outfitters and they said I'd have to drill the screw out: but that would mess up the threading in the foregrip and might also do more damage to the gun, and that they  couldn't drill it out because they have tried to before and have broken many drill bits in the process

Your shop needs to hire an airsmith that isn't a bloody idiot. Just saying...

Screw extractors
Left-hand drill bit and hope it turns it out
Drill out the internal threading and re-thread with helicoils.

Three ways right off the top of my head to fix a stripped out screw.

Edit: Wait wait wait...All the reciever bolts on a 98 thread into a NUT stuck in the other side of the reciever. Just drill the sucker out and replace the nut...Good lord your shop is even worse than I initially thought.


Edited by Enos Shenk - 14 February 2010 at 5:04pm