Greetings!

I have a single screw, within a black "plastic" configuration, that
holds the metal left panel of my Sun Ultra 30 computer system.

The screw went in too tight. And, in trying to remove it, I have
really seriously "messed up" the phillips head of the screw. (Stripped
didn't sound quite right to me, because, at least so far as I know, the
threads along the length of the screw [within the system] are fine. It's
the phillips head that is "stripped".)

Last weekend, I put WD-40 on it. Tonight, I am not able to remove
it.

Two different screwdrivers just almost freely move in the (what was
a) phillips hole, and there is not enough of the metal left in the
phillips "hole shape" to grab the screw enough to turn it, and remove it.
(I've tried needle-nose pliers, too, so far, it's not budging!)

Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

I recently had it open to place a second SCSI hard drive in the Sun.
And, the hard drive is in, and it's working just fine. So, at the moment,
I don't *critically* need to go inside it. But, I know the day will come
when I will want to again. I'd like to get this screw removed, and then,
replace it with a new one, and be more careful, in the future, to not get
it in so tight.

Thank you very much for any suggestions!

Barry
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