Your attack is uncalled for.  While he may well not be using the "right" 
tool, I service laptops, and in the case of Toshiba, almost NO screws go 
into plastic, Toshiba manages to use machine screws into metal almost 
everywhere, and they use "locktite" in a lot of places where they should 
not.  I have had to drill out the screws holding hard drive into caddies 
on more than one occasion.  Toshiba is guilty of using excessive torque 
combined with locktite that does indeed make at least some screws 
non-removable.  I have found the same thing in other products, including 
some Nikon film scanners that I service, and, indeed, I have found 
instances in which it was clear that the Nikon factory service center 
had to "dremel out" a screw that they could not remove either.

It happens.  [Although odds are better than even that he isn't using the 
"right" tool for the job.]


NoNoBadDog wrote:
> 
> 
> So because you are an idiot that does not know how to use a screwdriver 
> properly, you think Toshiba is to blame?
> You do realize that the majority of those screws are screwed into soft 
> plastic?
> You do realize that if you use a cheap set of what are commonly called 
> "jewelers" screwdrivers, you cannot properly use them to give the kind 
> of torque you need to easily remove those screws?
> Have you ever heard the expression "right tool for the job"?
> I have taken apart many hundreds of laptops, and I have never had a 
> screw that I could not remove.  But then again, unlike you, I am not an 
> idiot.
> So your suggestion is to not tighten the screws so that everything is 
> loose, and so that the improperly tightened screws will work loose and 
> fall out?
> Are you even able to feed yourself?
> 
> 
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