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Default Driving screws into MDF

"Grant Edwards" wrote in message


For example, when screwing things to balsa, it's common practice to
put a drop of cyanoacrylate into the pilot hole so that it wicks into
and hardens the walls of the hole. You let the CA cure completely
before driving the screw -- so you're not gluing the screw in, you're
just using the CA to reinforce the walls of the pilot hole.

Any recommended tricks like that for MDF?


Use bolts (national coarse thread):

1. drill proper sized hole
2. tap the hole
3. add CA to tapped hole and let dry (until NO odor)
4. tap again


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