It's Easy tech and garage tips time again.

No great technical knowledge here, just a safety idea. Fire extinguisher mounted on the Mig cart, always handy where the hot stuff is.

jim

 

Got a stripped out hole in a piece of wood?
And even a sheet metal screw won't hold?

Get a bottle of Cyanoacrylate glue at the hobby shop.
Goldberg's works fine. (The one you want is the thin watery stuff.)
Sand up a little pile of sawdust from any old piece of wood.
Makes no difference what the wood type is.
Pack the sawdust in the stripped out hole.
Apply 2-3-4 drops of the Cyano glue to the sawdust.
This turns the sawdust in the hold and the surrounding old wood very hard.
Drill a hole where required, screw the part down using a sheet metal screw and you'll have a fix that's stronger than the original and long lasting as well.

(In lieu of sawdust you can use baking soda, but it comes out way harder than the sawdust - not sure about how long the fix will last with the baking soda, but it does work. Either the sawdust or baking soda will make for a hard to sand surface so mold the dust or soda close to where you want it when dry.

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A quick and easy temporary fix - that can last a long time - for a stripped out sheet metal hole that won't hold a sheet metal screw:
Get a paper clip, bend a short section into a very tight "U" shape.
Drop the short piece of paper clip into the stripped out hole.
Install screw.
It will hold about the same torque a fresh sheet metal hole will.
This works cuz the paper clip piece forces the sheet metal screw to bite into fresh sheet metal.

 

When I wire a car I always run the new wires all the way to the tail/parklight socket. To make a new contact point on the end of the wire I skin about a 1/16 of a inch of insulation off then bend down the ends 90 degrees and in a circle than drop on a drop of soder. Makes a good contact point for the bulb and wires are color coded all the way to the light housing.

 

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If you don't need a superglue-strength fix, just coat some wooden toothpicks with wood glue, stuff them down in the hole, and break them off flush.

I used to do that for things like guitar strap locks and it worked fine.