Dick Keats wrote:
Situation is that SWMBO wanted me you put up curtain rods over two 8'
high by 6' wide sliding doors.
Packaged with the rods and #8 x 1-1/4 screws are some plastic anchors
which resemble white tubes with a split on both sides and a couple
wings. Instructions said to use a 3/16" bit. Thought I was just
drilling through sheetrock but I was very quickly into wood.
I tried to get the anchor in but it refused so I drilled the hole
deeper. It still didn't want to go in without bending.
So then I tried a 1-1/2" screw but I had drilled too deeply into the
wood for the screw to hold.
What to do now? Only idea I'm having is to cram some toothpicks into
the hole and use a screw.
Changing the location of the bracket is not an option.
BTW, the bracket and screwheads will be visible. Any thoughts or
ideas will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Dick in Ferris, TX

Abandon the idea of the expanding tubes. Somebody in the dim past
manufactured 100 million of the damn things and sold them to hardware
manufacturers. These manufacturers, in turn, dispense them with every
product they sell in an effort to diminish the pile sufficiently so the
balance can be taken to the dump. These plastic screw holders don't hold
worth squat and will die of shame in the middle of the night causing your
dog to go nuts, your wife to scream, and you to have heart palpitations!

Go to the hardware store and buy some 2" screws of the appropriate diameter.
Done.