Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:41:52 -0700
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Table repair (report)
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dear all
carriage bolts would have negated the necessity of plastic wood filler
the rounded tops are designed just for the application spoken of here ...
strong solid hold ... with head "hidden"
yours
On 8/21/07, neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> The rear table on my Westy broke on the last trip. From too much
> leaning on it to get stuff (read: super heavy parts box) from clothes
> closet. The screws stripped out.
>
> It appeared this had happened before. There were 8 holes chewed out by
> stripped screws. Since there were dents/scratches on the table top,
> and last fix didn't hold, I figured through bolting was a strong
> solution and wouldn't mar it's looks.
>
> I drilled through stripped holes, drilled a bigger hole roughly half
> way through from top for washers (small + bigger) and used #8 machine
> screws/nuts with the washers. I filled the holes up top with LePage
> Plastic Wood. It took a few applications. That stuff actually set up
> harder than I thought it wood (pun intended) Originally I was going to
> fill holes with bungs so drilled a little too deep from top. In
> hindsight I wouldn't have bothered, drilled less deep and gone
> straight to the wood filler.
>
> Kinda hard to cover up the fix. I tried some leftover off white
> bathroom enamel paint, but it didn't match.
>
> It ain't pretty, but it never was. I think it's stronger than before.
> We'll see.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil.
>
>
> --
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> "Jaco" (Bustorius)
>
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>
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