I have a few kits, due to wear & tear, where the screw holes are too large for the screw I’m using. Instead of using a larger screw, I was wondering if anyone uses some form of putty to fill in the hole to make the origional screw work again?
Thanks
Gordon
Old trick: Take a piece of plastic castin sprue, heat it, pull it out to a taper. Cut it off in the middle of the taper, stick it into the hole and secure it with solvent cement. Cut it off flush. When dry, drill it 1/16", tap 2-56, use a 2-56 screw to mount the truck.
Drill out the old hole to 1/8". Glue in 1/8" Evergreen tubing and cut flush after allowing it to dry overnight. The hole in the tubing is just right for #2 self tapping screws.
An even quicker fix is to insert an appropriatelt-sized piece of strip styrene into the hole - .010"x.020" usually works well. Cut it off so that it doesn’t protrude, put the truck in place and re-install the screw. The screw threads will mash it, providing enough interference to keep the screw in place.
Wayne
No laws against subbing the next larger machine screw. (Simple)…
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