In this workshop segment, Ron addresses an annoying problem that nearly everyone has come up against; you put a screw into a piece of wood you discover that the threads are strip out. That screw keeps turning, and spinning, but nothing happens. Ron offers some great solutions to this problem.
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1. Solution #1 - Longer screw
- The first solution Ron offered was unbelievably simple. He just took the screw out and replaced it with one that was slightly longer. Not larger necessarily, but just a bit longer.
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- Those few extra threads sometimes make all the difference.
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2. Solution #2 - Toothpicks
- There are times when you can't use a longer screw for some reason. Maybe you just don't have one. Ron demonstrated how ordinary toothpicks can sometimes solve the problem.
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- Ron took three toothpicks, placed them in the stripped hole…
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- …and broke off the excess.
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- He used an awl to help find the center of the three toothpicks.
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- The extra wood that he put into the hole in the form of toothpicks, helped to make the hole smaller. This was just enough so that those threads could get a grip. Then it was just a matter of running the screw back down into the hole.
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3. Solution #3 - Plastic anchors
- Door hinge screws can present a different kind of problem. They often get stripped, probably because the doors are always pulling and tugging on them, but also because the doors are attached to a door jam that is not very thick.
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- In this case, a longer screw wouldn't make any difference and toothpicks don't work well, either. Ron offered a solution that usually does work. Plastic anchors.
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- First Ron drilled the stripped holes out. He selected a drill bit that was the same diameter as the anchor that he was planning to use.
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- Ron drilled all the way through the hinge hole.
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- Next, he used a second bit; a counter-sink bit with a cone shape tip.
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- Ron used this special bit to counter-sink the holes that he had just drilled.
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- Ron used the countersink bit because the anchors had a flange, or head around the top edge and Ron wanted to make sure that the flange would recess so that the top of the anchor was flush with this hinge mortise.
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- Ron set the anchors into the hole and pushed them down…
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