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Just lost 3 days to a simple door hinge problem...
I was building a custom pantry cabinet and got to the doors. Thought I'd breeze through the hinge install in an hour but the screw holes kept stripping out in the particle board. Tried wood glue and toothpicks, then switched to longer screws, then tried those plastic wall anchors... nothing worked. Finally after 3 days of messing around I realized I needed a $4 pack of cabinet hinge screws with the right thread pattern. Had to drill everything out and start over. Anyone else get wrecked by a tiny hardware detail like this?
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kelly.emma9d ago
@walker.andrew nailed it, it's always the small stuff that gets you. Found out the hard way that particle board needs special screws with deeper threads or those self-tapping cabinet ones. Grab a thread repair kit if you ever strip another one, saves re-drilling everything.
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