Replace old toilet seat

mike0690 · 3 Aug 2021

Hi all,

I'm trying to replace an old toilet seat but I found these screws once I removed the seat. I tried everything to remove them but the screws won't budge.

I'm not sure whether there is a trick with the wing nut but the screws seem completely stuck.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

freddiemercurystwin · 3 Aug 2021

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mike0690 · 3 Aug 2021

Sorry I hope this time it works

freddiemercurystwin · 3 Aug 2021

What's on the other end of the bolt?

mike0690 · 3 Aug 2021

This

just pumps · 3 Aug 2021

Screw head looks damaged so will struggle now.
Drill or grind the head off and let bolt drop to the floor?

lostinthelight · 3 Aug 2021

Doesnt the cap prise up and maybe reveal some othet means of undoing the thread through the pan, that screw head looks to flimsy to get tight enough to stop the seat moving in use

freddiemercurystwin · 3 Aug 2021

lostinthelight said:
Doesnt the cap prise up and maybe reveal some othet means of undoing the thread through the pan, that screw head looks to flimsy to get tight enough to stop the seat moving in use

That's a pretty common toilet fitting, what would you expect?

JohnD · 3 Aug 2021

it isn't visibly rusty, which is good.

If the head is burred (even with exactly the correct screwdriver) you could work from underneath with a mole on the shaft and pliers on the "nut". Once you get even a fraction of movement on it, you'll be able to wiggle it to and from with a bit of penetrating oil. Even WD40 will do. I have got quite keen on grease and antiseize on nuts and bolts. Some people still use Copaslip, but its special copper content is only valuable when the grease or clay base has burned away, e.g. on exhaust mamifolds.

Are you sure you used the right driver? A perfect fit will feel much more solid than any "nearly right" screwdriver.

lostinthelight · 3 Aug 2021

freddiemercurystwin said:
That's a pretty common toilet fitting, what would you expect?

Its just the heads of the ones ive fitted have had a bigger cross in the head , no 3 , and even with the greater pressure I get on it the GD seems to squirm the seat out of line.

JohnD · 3 Aug 2021

I'm afraid it looks to me like it has been mangled with the wrong driver. I don't see a Pozi cross

on the head, might it be a

Phillips?

lostinthelight · 3 Aug 2021

When you replace the seat it should come with new fixings, put a hacksaw cut across the old screw head and use a slotted driver

just pumps · 3 Aug 2021

lostinthelight said:
When you replace the seat it should come with new fixings, put a hacksaw cut across the old screw head and use a slotted driver

Double up with the blades.

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