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Fixing a worn screw hole using a paper clip.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...193#post195778
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...034#post195086
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...354#post192539
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...673#post186242
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...052#post184174

! So much for toothpicks, wooden match sticks, or chop sticks.

If you can fine one a bobby pin works well too, because they already have a natural thread shape in the ridges plus since there is more mass due to width, they will take up more space in a stripped-out hole

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Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

! So much for toothpicks, wooden match sticks, or chop sticks.

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I was going to make that same comment about using a toothpick or match.

Looks like the real problem was using a power tool, an stripping out the wood threads.

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Originally Posted by metric_taper

I was going to make that same comment about using a toothpick or match.

Looks like the real problem was using a power tool, an stripping out the wood threads.

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Almost; looks a problem is powerful tools, the real problem, that being sold as 'wood'.
My house, built 1901, still takes work to start and enter a screw.

Useful tip. But that screw looks shorter than the ones normally used.

Short screws are common here, in kits of new hardware. I replace with longer, to fully penetrate casing; exterior doors longer yet into the framing.

Exterior and basement doors also get pinned; pressing a spring pin into the fixed side, a clearance hole on the other. With a double cylinder deadbolt, door becomes difficult to get out; even with hinge pins removed.
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That's good practice. Cuz it's what the installers do!

I have installed literally near a thousand doors. One long screw each on the hinges is usually enough. But you will have to increase the size of the countersink on the hinges for this to work perfectly. On your hinges I think you got away with it. But conventional hinges you have to do the counter bore to accommodate the number 10 screws. I don't use number 8's not enough meat on the shanks.

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Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko

That's good practice. Cuz it's what the installers do!

I have installed literally near a thousand doors. One long screw each on the hinges is usually enough. But you will have to increase the size of the countersink on the hinges for this to work perfectly. On your hinges I think you got away with it. But conventional hinges you have to do the counter bore to accommodate the number 10 screws. I don't use number 8's not enough meat on the shanks.

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Wally Faulkner, who taught us carpentry at Reading Tech, told us more than once, “When you’ve shifted a ton of nails, you can call yourself a carpenter!” So, by extension, I would say that having “ shifted” 1000 doors, you are unquestionably ranked as a second-fix carpenter!

Shifted?
From box to framing? Pulled and reset? Bent them like a transmission lever?