u/Athanosh

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find replacement screws for a PS Vita due to me stripping the Torx screws which were previously holding a module together with the main board.

The issue is, I know almost nothing about screws and since I'm now deathly afraid of those Torx screws I had to remove with a specialized pliers tool, I'm looking for Philips replacement screws of the same diameter instead, since it seems later revisions used this instead of the Torx ones.

According to iFixit I'm looking for Philips #00 of 4,4 milimeters, and I think it has to be "M2" as well ; but I can't seem to find those screws in 4,4mm, only 4mm!

Am I mistaken, should I actually use 4mm screws or do these actually exist but are highly specialized?

I'm based in Europe, if you have specific store recommendations.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find replacement screws for a small electronic device (a PS Vita) due to me stripping the Torx screws which were previously holding a component together with the board.

The issue is, I know almost nothing about screws and since I'm now deathly afraid of those Torx screws I had to remove with a specialized pliers tool, I'm looking for Philips replacement screws of the same diameter instead, since it seems later revisions used this instead of the Torx ones.

According to iFixit I'm looking for Philips #00 of 4,4 milimeters, and I think it has to be "M2" as well ; but I can't seem to find those screws in 4,4mm, only 4mm!

Am I mistaken, should I actually use 4mm screws or do these actually exist but are highly specialized?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Hi, I wanted to remove these two peculiar, sort of star-shaped screws holding the Wifi module of a Japanese PS Vita 3G but the disassembly process came to a stop when I reached the Wifi module ; where most of the guide I followed seemed to have to deal with regular philips screws, mine comes with oddly shaped screws that I tried to remove using heads from my iFixit kit, to no avail.

At this point I'm afraid I might have ripped them a little too.

Any idea on how to maybe get these out ? Am I even using the proper screw heads ? And if I do manage to get those out, is there a particular model of regular philips screws I could replace them with ?

Thanks for the help.