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Default Bright ideas for stripped threads in power socket mounting box

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EricP wrote:
Anybody have any bright ideas for stripped threads in a socket mounting
box??

Graham

Try an ordinary woodscrew. They work quite well.


But look like a bodge. The correct screws are raised head chrome plated.
And a raised head chrome plated wood screw will be brass, and break if you
try to screw it into steel.

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