Thanks, I'll have to try that after sending the wife to the store. We
had two boxes of tooth picks (round and square) and she chose to throw
away the square ones. I needed some square ones for spacers on a small
painting project a few weeks back but made do with something else after
discovering she had thrown them out. This time she goes to the store. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Steve Dropkin wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> However, the other two screw holes are about 1/2 hole
>> width mispositioned both laterally and vertically to be able to use the
>> other two existing screw holes in the door and frame.
>>
>> The only way I know of to fix this problem is to drill out the wrongly
>> positioned existing holes and glue in a short length of dowel to fill
>> the hole. Then redrill for the screws. Anybody know an easier solution?
>
> I've had very good success just shoving a bunch of toothpicks into
> the hole (the square-profile ones work best) and squirting in some
> wood glue (or white glue, like Elmer's). You may want to "persuade"
> the last few toothpicks into the hole, but it will work. You don't
> even have to wait for the glue to dry -- it will eventually. That
> and slightly longer screws than you had and you'll have a fix which
> will handle lots of punishment.
>
> Steve
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