09-11-2016, 10:48 AM
Thanks, everyone, for your helpful suggestions. I have used melted Capacitor wax from time to time, and do have a couple of those RS screw gripping screwdrivers, in fact have had them for many years. Unfortunately, the smallest of those is too large for a M1.6 screw. Howver I've now managed to fit the said screw, but will have to fit a M1.6 x 2.5mm soon. That's going to be even more fiddly. I didn't know about the 'multiply by 2.5' bit, when searching for dropped small parts. Pardon my ignorance, but what is the reasoning behind this? As it's several days, maybe over a week, since I dropped the screw in question, this may be irrelevant to the present situation, but may well help in future!
