You notice that your door is not shutting properly, so you check and find that the screws on the door hinge are loose. You grab a screw driver to tighten them down, but when you do they just keep spinning. The screw hole has become stripped and needs to be repaired.
There are a number of different ways of how to repair a stripped screw hole, depending on the size of the screw and hole it makes.
If you have a cabinet door with small screws, using wooden toothpicks or slivers from some scrap wood and some glue will do the trick.
With larger screws like an entry door, using a golf tee and glue will work for a while.
For a better repair that will last a long time check out the video on the Next Page.
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You can repair stripped screw holes by drilling out the whole slightly bigger and gluing a wooden dowel into the holes and then trimming it flush, and then you can drill a new pilot hole into the area for your screw.
You’ll need:
A drill
A wooden dowel (I used a 4ft long 3/8″ poplar dowel – $0.84 at a local store)
A saw of some kind if you need to cut your dowel
A 3/8″ drill bit (I used a Forstner bit)
Wood glue
Shop brush
A smaller drill bit (to drill new pilot holes after you’ve patched the old holes)
A screwdriverThe dowel I bought was 48″ long, so I cut off three pieces that were around 1.5″ long. I didn’t measure, and used a little hand coping saw to cut them to size. I had some 80 grit sandpaper nearby so I used that to smooth and square off the rough looking cuts I made.
Great advice from instructables.com
Check out the video below for more instructions.
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