Counterintuitive, but try to break it loose by tightening- just a fraction, then try loosening.
That was really solid advice, it worked. You have my gratitude.
Grab the screw head with a pair of dykes push the handles toward the cover to leverage the screw out. At the same time as you apply pressure attempt to remove the screw with your screwdriver.
Alternately pry the cover open with a flat blade while unscrewing the screw with a Phillips screwdriver.
Alternately, break out an impact driver and use that. Or just put some ass into it.
Called a lesbian neighbor after your suggestion. She removed and called me a faggot. Fuck yall
Grab the screw head with a pair of dykes push the handles toward the cover to leverage the screw out. At the same time as you apply pressure attempt to remove the screw with your screwdriver.
I like this idea. Unfortunately the only tools I have are the ones I will find in my mother's tool bag, but perhaps there will be a pair of dykes down there at the bottom.
The dyke trick can be done with nearly any metal object, it just gets a bit wonky when you can only hit one side. With something like a butter knife.
You've gotten it out based on other comments...
Use a grinder and make it slotted/standard screw. Alternatively, if you have vice grips, crank those bitches down and use the leverage to your advantage.
Also, liquid can't be stuck.
Looks deceivingly simple, so I guess you've tried the obvious solutions. The screw looks unmolested in the picture but if it was me, I'd have only taken one after I, well, molested it and failed.
What tools do you have available, what did you try and where did you get stuck? Does the screw still look like pic related?
Looks like a Philips head, but the little dot points to Japanese JIS B 1012? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives
I tried pretty much all of the listed suggestions, as well as the rubber band trick and the obvious shit like applying wd40.
The thing that ended up working was attempting to screw it in tighter to break the friction, then unscrewing.
Now I have accessed the internal workings and switched the setting from 'eco-bitch mode' to 'this is America' mode, however it has not solved our problem yet...
