fred wrote in :

In article ,
newshound writes
Fridge just died, so replaced with shiny new Which best buy Samsung.

Decided to reverse hinges, book has full details but also dire
warnings
about getting a man in.

M5 tapped holes on "other" side are covered by plastic sheet about 1
mm
thick, no way of getting screw to get through "unaided". So, ran
through
a 4.2 mm drill. Tapped holes are there, but not very well tapped:
screws
stick half way. Out with M5 tap and remove a significant amount of
metal. Also needed to increase clearance holes in brackets in order to
get screws aligned.

Otherwise a nice bit of kit, but anyone without taps and a range of
drills would have been stuffed. Ten minute job took half the evening.

Any chance the screws might have been trilobal thread forming screws?
They don't look like conventional self tappers, superficially more
like
standard threads but would have felt tight when forming the thread.
Just
a thought.

+1

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DerbyBorn