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Default Woodscrew "stripped threads"

On 21/12/2015 16:07, Kevin wrote:
On 21/12/15 10:50, Adrian wrote:
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Except... it's doing it again. And several of the screws seem to have
"stripped" their threads into the wood of the frame. The recesses in the
hinge aren't big enough to go up on screw size.

Thoughts?


A short length of rawlplug. Ideally one of the old fibre ones (what???!
- you've not got some in a tin somewhere?), next best parallel plastic,
at a pinch the tip of one of these new-fangled tapered ones.


is the right answer, well the first thing to try anyway, especially as
it all sounds a bit wet out there. Standard red plug if you can hammer
it in, or a yellow one if not. Whatever tightens the screws really