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big-all the hole in which the screw is buried is just wide enough for a normal hex bit; what's really annoying is that if the hole with even 1/8" shorter I could get some pliers in to turn my existing bit. I'm thinking that some plastic surgery (sorry about the pun) might be in order...

foxhole - this is a Home Tek Hunter. It has 4 normal screws and 2 security screws and that's it. The security screws are T25 and one of them is buried so deep in the plastic cover that a normal bit+driver arrangement doesn't work; the driver is too big to fit into the hole. big-all's suggestion...

My set has T20 T25 T27 and T30 - go figure, as our transatlantic cousins would put it :D . Also I checked and its definitively a T25 I need.

pinenot - thanks for the suggestion, I'll follow up if big-all is not in a position to help.

Big-all, sorry, don't have photo technology at the moment. The bit is a 6-pointed star with a hole in the centre (the screw has a star-shaped depression with a raised bit in the middle) - looks like the top row in the toolstation photo and I'm guessing these are the star bits - mine has a...

Thanks big-all for the quick reply and the cheery welcome. I also spotted the set at toolstation however the cost of repairing the hand held hoover would be getting to the point of buying a new one! So far its cost me £7 for new belts, £5 for the Screwfix bits and the unit itself only costs...

I'm trying to repair a hand held vacuum cleaner which has a couple of security screws in it (presumably to stop me frying myself on the electrics). I need to get access to the mechanism to replace the belt that drives the brush. I bought a set of bits from Screwfix and found that a CR VT25 bit...