Originally posted by: AllGoodNamesAreTaken
Hopefully someone can help me out.
A screw holding a kitchen cabinet door hinge to the cabinet frame came out. There is a gaping hole where it used to be, so I cannot screw it back in. I purchased some Minwax wood filler that claimed to allow driving screws/nails. It failed miserably, turning to dust when I drove the screw back in.
Is there a better product? I know the correct technique is to glue a wooden dowel in place, cut it off, and drive the screw into the dowel, but that is beyond my skillset.
Cheers.
It's not that hard.. I use golf tees.
- Drill out the hole so it's about the same size as the tee...
- squeeze in some glue...
- tap tee into hole...
- wait for it to dry...
- cut tee flush with surface...
- drill small pilot hole for new screw...
- drive new screw into place.
I did this 6 times when my son and his friends toor the door off the wall.... pulled out all 6 screws.... door is up there like nothing ever happened.
For those interested...
He had friends over for the night, and they were trying to keep each other in/out of the room by holding the door shut.... he and one of his friends put their shoulders into the door, trying to force the others out of the way, and it came off.
They got in trouble...but the look on their faces when I went up to see WTF was happening was priceless... lol