RE: 25xx Good Laugh

From: Dennis Laganiere (dennisl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 13:53:18 GMT-3


   
There's a perfect little tool for ripping the heads off of stripped rack
screws. It's a little hand grinder called, and I know I'm spelling this
wrong, a "dremal" tool... It's a brand name thing they sell at home-depot,
and it'll pop the head off a recalcitrent bolt in minutes... You can also
use it to smooth out the bolt once the router is released, but you'll never
use that hole again... :-)

--- Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter van Oene [mailto:pvo@usermail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:00 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: 25xx Good Laugh

I had that happen (stripped screws) to an interface card in a 3com chassis
a few years back. You can imagine the look I got from the network manager
who returned from grabbing us a coffee only to see me sawing away full
force with a hacksaw on his chassis :)

At 06:36 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, Giveortake@aol.com wrote:
>Well now I've done it.. I tried to put an image on a router with
>insufficient DRAM. So now it wont boot. I can ctrl break, but I dont get
>the standard RMON> prompt. Instead I get a ">" with nothing else. Very
>limited options available. None of the typical confreg or xmodem commands.
> Thus I can't figure out how to fix my problem. CCO search for
25xx
>gave the typical RMON disaster recovery options but none of them apply.
>Bootstrap is 5.2(5).
>
>Now here is the funny part: I figured no problem I will just yank the
dram
>from another machine and dowgrade IOS. Well its in my rack and apparently
I
>tightened it down to hard. Stripped the screws and now I can't get it out
>without a drill. I broke all my drill bits on the last one I had to get
out
>of there.
>
>Moral to the story: HAND TIGHTEN YOUR RACK SCREWS. Do not use a power
>screwdriver!!!!!!!
>
>Anyone have any suggestions??
>
>David



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