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Attempting to remove a small screw from the metal access panel of tankless water heater.

The screw it not stripped.

There is a silicon washer between the screw and the access panel.

Let me know if you have any advice.

Attempting to remove a small screw from the metal access panel of tankless water heater. The screw it not stripped. There is a silicon washer between the screw and the access panel. Let me know if you have any advice. [Pic related](https://poal.co/static/images/8080000080000020.jpg)
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[–] • 1 pt

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

[–] • 2 pts

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...