On 9/22/2010 7:08 AM, Gerald Ross wrote:
Zz Yzx wrote:
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:47:43 -0600,
wrote:

More years ago than I can remember I came across a little kit for
restoring
screw holes. It was particularly handy for moving a strike plate for
a door
latch. The kit had a tapered bit to drill a hole that accepted a plug
shaped
like the sharpened end of a pencil. (it also included a pencil shaped
piece
of wood that could be sharpened in a pencil sharpener and used as a
plug.)
I've lost it, looked in all the catalogs I have and am beginning to
wonder
if I dreamed it.
Anyone familiar with the device?

Max

What's the advantage of the tapered hole/plug? Seems to me a straight
hole/plug would work as well or better. I ask in ernest.

-Zz

I think it is not so much the tapered plug as the pointed reamer that
will follow a screw-hole much easier than a drill bit. I think a drill
bit with a conical tip would have been more ideal but harder to make.

Any twist-drill has a conical tip. There are also the special tapered
bits intended for old-fashioned wood screws.