Hardware I stripped a screw

[supersega]

If you aren't afraid to take a Dremel with a cutting wheel to your Switch, I'd do that to cut a flat head slot into the top, then use a good quality flat head screwdriver to remove. You can also try a new screwdriver that you do not care about, putting some Loctite on the tip, and sticking it into the hole, holding it for a little and letting the Loctite do its thing.

 

[JiveTheTurkey]

Also tried the rubber method with no sucess

The rubber method never works. (whisper) ..never... R.I.P.

 

[Tumoche]

I will try the melted pen method and if it doesn't work i guess the dremel will be my last resort

 

[guily6669]

I would just skip to dremel... I have a way worse screw to fix on my Sony Xperia Z2 which is like half the size and its snapped inside and worse was that I already had the phone fully open and sent it to a repair shop and they snapped the bolt said the PCB was burned and after some time someone discovered how to fix it on the web and I just did tiny soldering and the bastard came alive lol... burned PCB...

I'm just waiting for the god damn Screen glass protector for months to arrive as the first ones came fully broken. I will use the dremel my self to make a cut and then with a tiny flathead screw driver (watches like size) I will try to remove it.

 

[lukas_2511]

I will try the melted pen method and if it doesn't work i guess the dremel will be my last resort

Why do you even need to remove that? That screw only holds in the joy-con rail, did you break that and want to replace it? If you want to open your switch for whatever reason you just need to remove the middle screws on the side.

 

[Tumoche]

Why do you even need to remove that? That screw only holds in the joy-con rail, did you break that and want to replace it? If you want to open your switch for whatever reason you just need to remove the middle screws on the side.

I didn't knew, i tried to take off any visible screw and that happened. Now i don't really know what to do (i don't have a dremel)

 

[guily6669]

If you don't have a dremel, try scratching with some hard metal and keep doing it until it goes a bit deep so that a flat screwdriver can fit...

 

[MopSec]

Feels bad, man. I ripped the ribbon cable of my right joycon rail yesterday.

 

[Nick1983]

Hope you guys managed to get your systems sorted out.