When taking my door stops off the screws broke off in the little backing plate.




One is flush, one is raised a litlle.

How to get them out? I have a stud remover but it is far too big. I double I would be able to drill a hole in the remaining screw shafts anyay.

Does that little plate come out easily?

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die grind a small flat area on them,,,then centre punch right in the guts of em, drill & re-tap the threads

easy-peasy

well,,,easy-peasy to say/type

have fun man

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Spray CRC / WD-40 / ant-sieze spray on them, leave them a while and use a screw extractor. But gently - if you snap the screw extractor in there, you won't be able to drill them out.

You could also use a Dremel with a cutting disc to cut a slot and use a screw driver.

Or drill them out, but I find it's a little messier as you need to get all the old thread out.

Failing that, cut off the panel, I would hate for it to not be the only new bit of metal in the whole car.......

OK, it wasn't that hard after all. I could run them through instead of unscrewing them out over the rusty thread.

Like Matt said, grid a flat spot, punch, drill. The hardest part was finding a drill small enough. Lucky I found an old PCB drill. Probably 0.9mm. Next problem: it was too small for my drills chuck to grip. Found a bit of 2mm brass rod that I had already soldered a PCB drill into for this exact reason.



The first (raised) one started to go through just with the drilling but stopped flush. So I kept drilling then went and found a really really small self tapping screw. Smaller than the thread. Put that in the hold and screwed the lot through.

The second one was easier, just went through while drilling.

Easy peasy

Yer, good one JC

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I thought my suggestion was much, much better.

yeah, sometimes you just get lucky & the whole thing screws itself out while you`re drilling, but then other times it`s a blind hole or something else is in the way behind or whatever, glad to hear the good news

& yeah, well,,, John (striped) would probly rather just fit an all alloy keith Black V8 into a babys pram, that would be easier than some mini jobs hey?

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

For liddle screws like the ones here, that screw into a floating plate.....I would be inclined to try cleaning the surface as described above then soldering a T bar/brass screw thread or sumpthin to see if it will unscrew...done that before with some suck cess

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