What keeps me awake at night isn't the thought of Brexit, or zombies, it's unscrewing one of those little screws that hold on a lamp holder or suchlike and it dropping down and immediately vanishing into a black hole, or disappearing into the wiring loom somewhere or - knowing my luck - bridging two contacts that aren't supposd to be bridged, etc.
I have magnetic nut drivers but the magnetism on the smaller ones doesn't seem to be particularly strong - don't know whether this is just the way mine are (I have this set), it seems only the lightest contact with anything whilst removing the attached screw will dislodge it and send it into the wiring looms, a black hole or the aforementioned "place where no screw should go".
It seems crazy to me that in the year 2019 that unscrewing stuff from the bottom of the playfield remains a surgical bomb defusal like operation. Either that, or I'm missing something really obvious.
I even try using a nut driver in tandem with a telescopic magnetic tool to grab the screw as its about to fall out, but that ends up being just as fraught, like I'm performing brain surgery or something.
Hasn't anyone invented a nut driver with a claw on the end to clamp onto the screw head or something? Failing that - what are you lot doing to avoid this problem?
I need to remove a lamp socket and a light board PCB (with standoffs that are just begging to fall down into the machine too) and just the thought of it sat at my desk at work is giving me a panic attack. Help me fellow Pinheads, you're my only hope.
I have magnetic nut drivers but the magnetism on the smaller ones doesn't seem to be particularly strong - don't know whether this is just the way mine are (I have this set), it seems only the lightest contact with anything whilst removing the attached screw will dislodge it and send it into the wiring looms, a black hole or the aforementioned "place where no screw should go".
It seems crazy to me that in the year 2019 that unscrewing stuff from the bottom of the playfield remains a surgical bomb defusal like operation. Either that, or I'm missing something really obvious.
I even try using a nut driver in tandem with a telescopic magnetic tool to grab the screw as its about to fall out, but that ends up being just as fraught, like I'm performing brain surgery or something.
Hasn't anyone invented a nut driver with a claw on the end to clamp onto the screw head or something? Failing that - what are you lot doing to avoid this problem?
I need to remove a lamp socket and a light board PCB (with standoffs that are just begging to fall down into the machine too) and just the thought of it sat at my desk at work is giving me a panic attack. Help me fellow Pinheads, you're my only hope.