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stripped screw hole

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Brando457

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I stripped the screw hole on my antec sonata backplate where I screw my vga down. What are my options to fi this problem?
 
i did the same thing, and i found a quick and easy solution. you can remove the bolt that you screw the vga cable pin into by getting a pair of pliers and unscrewing it from the inside of the pci-plate. then you get to go on a search to find a replacement (mb a pci-vid card somewhere?). good luck.
 
do you mean the anchor where the VGA cable plugs into the card, or the hole that you use to anchor the card to the case? If it's the latter, you may have to figure out another way to secure the card--once a hole has been stripped, it's pretty unusable for that size screw. If it's just the anchor for the cable, you can deal without it.
 
Have you looked into getting it heli-coiled? I've had to use them once, when a screw hole got stripped in a part on one of my paintball markers.
 
It would probably be easiest just to get a longer screw, put it through the hole in your card and case, and tighten it down with a nut.
 
TerryG said:
It would probably be easiest just to get a longer screw, put it through the hole in your card and case, and tighten it down with a nut.
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I think thats what im going to end up doing :( it sucks too cause its a new case.
 
You may be in luck. The case manufacturers usually punch out these holes so the hole is actually deeper than the metal is thick. Take a punch and push some of that metal back into the hole from the side. It probably wouldn't take too much of a punch. Then tap the hole out with a 6-32 tap. If you didn't wipe out the threads too bad, a light tap may be enough, and you could just use a new screw.
 
Tab won't cut it... (You already managed to widen the thing)
I suggest getting nut riveting gun and get one of nut rivets... 6-32 is the size. On the side note, I can't figure out or find nut rivet or riveter head for lian-li screw (5-32 maybe?) Do anyone know one?
If you are around Riverside, CA, I can do quick rivet work on that one for you :p
 
Heli-coiling probably won't work the metals too thin.

The Nut and bolt would be awkward but would work.
 
fill it with JBWeld, wait until it dries, drill a small hole in it and use a scrap screw and WD40 to cut threads in it.
 
BigBadBiologist said:
That is an excellent idea!
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Thanks BigBad. Unfortunately it comes from experience. Guy across the street once said I was the only person he's ever met that can put 200 ft/lbs on a 1/4 drive ratchet.
 
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