So I drilled 4 small holes in a door for the hinges but they aren't in the right locations, need to be moved about 3/16ths of an inch. The holes are small, roughly 3/32nds or so. Whats the best thing to use to fill the old holes so as the new holes wont distort when I drill them. Thought about wood filler but also though about just mixing some sawdust and Elmers Carpenters wood glue. Any ideas would be appreciated.
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turbowoodworker
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Presuming this door is a full size door vs. cabinet door?
Toothpicks as stated will work for cabinet door and hinge, but for full size door, drill and glue in dowels to make the area solid. Then redrill.
Toothpicks as stated will work for cabinet door and hinge, but for full size door, drill and glue in dowels to make the area solid. Then redrill.
Hawk
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Glue wooden golf tees into the hole. Cut it off flush.
csp
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Centering drill bits are worth their weight in gold for situations like this. Rockler sells a kit of three that are on sale regularly.
Socket Pounder
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Bondo
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Ayuh,.... Pound in a wooden match with a drop of glue,....
drivesitfar
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CSP: i had no idea that those bits existed. thanks for posting them and with the picture makes it so easy to understand how owning the right tool for the job really is awesome. i know there are center punch tools for drilling steel in the right spot, but had no idea about the wood ones you mentioned.
69: here's a link to the Woodworking 101 thread that might give you some more helpful tips if you might need a few more.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6442497&posted=1#post6442497
69: here's a link to the Woodworking 101 thread that might give you some more helpful tips if you might need a few more.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6442497&posted=1#post6442497
The problem with dowels is that you would them be drill/screwing into end grain which is a fundamental woodworking no-no. Since the new holes are nearby (but still into side grain), the toothpick/golf tee/matchstick would be preferred to fill the botched holes.
Sticks McGee
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3/32" is pretty small. He needs the holes moved about 3/16" over from where they are now. Toothpicks, dowels, golf tees, etc would all have end grain where it fills the hole. These holes will be filled but the new holes would be not drilled in any of the filled spots anyway since he would move them 3/16" so I would not think it would make a difference. Unless he routed or chiseled out a fairly large rectangle deep enough to put a rectangle in place that was edge grain, I would think that any object like a gold tee, toothpick, match stick, etc would all have end grain exposed at the point it was flush with the door.
ddawg16
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Toothpicks.....cut flush....the hinge should hide it.
Exactly. My point was that you don't drill the hole any bigger and risk screwing into endgrain. Just fill the bad holes with a stick and glue and shift the screw to fresh wood.