Spent a whole Saturday trying to fix a crooked cabinet door hinge

I had this one cabinet door that just would not close right no matter what I did. Turns out the hinge screw holes were stripped and I wasted like 3 hours trying different adjustments before I figured it out. Used some wooden toothpicks and wood glue to fill the holes at my shop over on Elm Street and now it closes perfect. Anybody else run into this with particle board cabinets?

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michael_craig12d ago

Haha oh man, stripped screw holes in particle board are the absolute worst. I swear the people who design those cabinets just want us to suffer on weekends. Three hours is brutal, I would have probably just slammed the door shut and called it a day after the first hour lmao. Toothpicks and glue is the classic fix though, it always feels like a cheap magic trick.

mary_patel5912d ago

Toothpicks and glue is such a lifesaver, I saw that trick on YouTube once and was shook.