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I have a nit with C=.  Recently, a dead 2nd internal floppy drive necessitated
that I open my Amiga 2000 and remove/replace the 2nd floppy.  While inside,
I chose to clean the accumulation of a years worth of dust from the fan. 
(The fan was growling due to imbalance.)  Anyway, I'm taking the grid cover off 
of the power supply and the tiny phillips head screws are stripping right
and left of me.  Although I was using the proper sized phillips screwdriver,
I stripped two screws of their threads and a third of its slot.  Talk about
cheap hardware!!  

Well my replacement floppy arrived last Friday Oct. 20 and
I promptly went to install it.  Installation was simple, but again the plague
of inferior hardware struck.  The screws on the floppy drive mounting 
platform not tighten sufficiently to  immobilize the platform.  I am beginning
to fear that those screws are close to stripping their threads.  Needless
to say, I am ticked with C= and their inferior physical hardware.

Does anyone have some suggestions as to how and with what I might replace
these screws with?

The power supply's grid-cover screws are quite small
and the walls they are threaded into are really too thin to be tapped. Maybe
a larger sheet metal screw would work better.  The foppy bay's platform
is thick enough to be retapped and a better quality screw could be used.
I am also thinking of using a nut and bolt combination except that I can
already remember from my Erector Set days how easy it was to drop the nut 
into the most inaccessible region of a machine.  (Something about Murphy's
Law exponentially applied to a Murphy).
 
Please e-mail in response.
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 Bill Murphy        murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu