Panel access ideas
To get to my water pump to winterize and dewinterize, I have to access the water pump behind a wooden panel. To remove the panel, I have to take out 2 screws. After doing this over the last few years,...
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SoundGuy wrote:wbwood wrote:
To remove the panel, I have to take out 2 screws. After doing this over the last few years, it's starting to mess up the wood behind it and not really having much to bite anymore.
Same solution I'd always use in this situation - just fill in the hole(s) with wood dowel or in this case a wooden matchstick and a bit of carpenter's glue ... once the glue has set it's no different that screwing into fresh wood. K.I.S.S. :B
Yeah, but the original design was wrong and an owner will probably suffer the similar wood degeneration problem again.
There's more than a few ways to change the original design, some a lot simpler and more effective than looking for the screw driver and not being able to fasten the cover securely again.
My take is that once you try magnets you'll never go back to another system of fastening. Probably, thoughts will wander to where else they can be used.
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