All the screw holes which support the 5′ mirror to my 1875 dresser have been stripped out. Normally I put flat toothpicks in the screw hole to line the edges before I put the screws in, but now every single screw hole has been de-threaded and I need more secure support for the heavy mirror. Do I go to larger bore screws? What to do?
Thanks, Maggie
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Just a suggestion, you might want to try using expanding plastic or maybe metal wall anchors in the screw holes. Read [url]http://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/inffastener/infanchor/infanchor.html[/url] about a quarter of the way down the page Plastic (and other)Expansion Anchors. I know that isn’t their purpose, but they are cheap and it can’t hurt to try.
Otherwise larger screws is the only other alternative I can think of – and eventually the same problem will probably recur.