Screw Hole Too Big
Just replaced an outside marker light, but the screw was not able to grab (because the hole was too big). What is the best way to repair this? Thank you.
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Over the years I have used the tooth picks, match sticks with glue, small dowels with glue as Bill described but have evolved to using small triangular pieces of wood that I cut with a knife from the corners of wood scraps. It produces a taper triangular piece that bites into the over sized hole once you hammer it flush to the surface, will not spin when a screw is torqued into it and needs no glue. For small screws I use pine for larger screws requiring more torque I use oak and drill a pilot hole first.
