well, with anything mechanical, if the screw won't thread, you certainly
don't force it.
If it refuses to thread, it's better to leave it out.
Was this person helping you a heavy duty mechanic or something? you never
force a screw so much that you strip the head off it with radio equipment.
It's not like you can take a hax saw or blow torch to it later to get the
thing apart like you can with a D8 cat.
The way I deal with a screw that doesn't want to thread back into a hole
that it recently threaded just fine out of, is to take all the other screws
that I've already put in, out, and put the difficult one in.  Usually its
just a very slight miss alignment of the panel and the screw hole causing
issues.
If you put the difficult one in all by itself, it'll usually go in real
smooth and the rest will go in as normal as well.
Never ever just force the difficult screw in or you will end up with
stripped heads and stripped threads and that isn't fun when your dealing
with 3/16 screw sizes.
As for the foam pad, they're always a pain in the rear especially if you
don't keep a long nail for that purpose or if you don't sit there and fiddle
with it for half an hour.
I also use my teeth to get those off sometimes.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 3:22 PM
Subject: VGS1 installation on second TMV71A


> Hi, Folks.
>
> Well, today, with some sighted assistance, I was able to get the VGS1
voice
> chip installed in my second TMV71A.
>
> However, I guess I wasn't quite as lucky as Gary and some others out there
> who have tried it without a hitch.
>
> I had two problems, and I'm pointing them out for anyone who tries it in
the
> future:
>
> 1.  We had a problem with the rectangular foam pad that is supposed to go
> over the top of the chip.  The problem was that the smooth backing on the
> pad did not remove easily at all, and, in the end, the adhesive part of
the
> pad came off of the pad itself.  We managed to get it back on well enough
to
> secure the pad to the top of the voice chip, and the fact that the radio
> cover keeps it in place should help secure the chip even further.  But, it
> was a bit tricky to get that pad to co-operate just right.
>
> and, here's the problem I'm a bit more concerned about:
>
> 2.  My helper, when putting the eight screws back on the radio cover to
> complete the installation process said that one of the screws didn't seem
to
> thread properly, and now, when I try to get the screw out, it appears that
> the Philips head is worn off.  I can get the seven other screws out, but
not
> the eighth one.  If anyone has suggestions as to how I might get that
eighth
> and final screw out of there, I'll remove it and then look for a
> replacement.  I'm not planning to take the cover off the radio again,
unless
> absolutely necessary, but I'd at least like to have that capability.
>
> So, in short, the VGS1 install went well, but not without complications,
> even with sighted assistance.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>
>
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