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Taking plastic box off outside light?

  • 16-02-2012 11:34pm
    #1
    Athlone_Bhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 325 ✭✭


    I've a light in my back garden, it has a plastic box over it and is held on with two bolts. The bolts have two little nicks gone on each side on the top of the bolt. I tried putting a small thin flat head screwdriver and hitting it with a hammer but I still can't get it off.

    Could anyone tell me what fitting I need to take the plastic cover off?


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  • #2
    milehip1
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭milehip1


    Athlone_Bhoy wrote: »
    I've a light in my back garden, it has a plastic box over it and is held on with two bolts. The bolts have two little nicks gone on each side on the top of the bolt. I tried putting a small thin flat head screwdriver and hitting it with a hammer but I still can't get it off.

    Could anyone tell me what fitting I need to take the plastic cover off?

    chance posting a picture, cant really imagine what you're describing bolt wise.


  • #3
    whizbang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭whizbang


    needlenose pliers will do, but painful.
    cut a notch out of a piece of metal ie. nailfile.


  • #4
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,472 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Athlone_Bhoy wrote: »
    The bolts have two little nicks gone on each side on the top of the bolt.
    Possibly some kind of tamper resistant screw head .. does it look like any of the heads here (towards the bottom of the page) perhaps?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_drive


  • #5
    Stoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    its a special screw head alright, you can pick them up at www.cpc.co.uk I have a few lying around if you are ever around northside Dublin.


  • #6
    Athlone_Bhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 325 ✭✭Athlone_Bhoy


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  • #7
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,472 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    If you buy a standard set of security bits you'll almost certainly get one that'll fit that. It has two prongs on it that engage with those little slots. The set I have has 4 different sizes in it.

    See the top left corner of this set for example ... http://cr4.globalspec.com/PostImages/200910/SecurityBits_9C448360-D135-BEC6-8E4E8839DCA235B1.jpg


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