[Drew Carey]

Hiya All

When giving my bike the clean down from the winter crud I got to needing to take the chain cover off.

Removed the rear most screw first which also holds my tax disk. No probs there and the screw still has a decent amount of copper slip on it.

However, next comes the front most screw. Start turning and it turns straight away, so I think "Happy days no seizing". However, I continue to turn and it is not unscrewing at all but simply staying in place and turning freely. So I think "Oh rubbish the head is fubar'd", but, touch the back of the screw and the whole screw is turning with no problems.

On that basis therefore how can I get the screw out? I imagine that somehow the actual fixing point is knackered, but even with putting preasure on the back of the screw I can't get it to catch on the thread so it comes out. Just wanted peoples thoughts on how to get it out easily?

Cheers guys. Just slowly starting to find all the issues from a really bad winters riding.