{"id":49213,"date":"2025-04-23T16:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49213"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:38:38","slug":"home-maintenance-worn-out-screw-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-maintenance-worn-out-screw-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Home maintenance: worn-out screw holes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about home maintenance: the tutor mentions a possible solution for a tired screw hole in wood.<\/h2>\n<p>\nWorking on the beloved old gate yesterday, I came face-to-face with a problem I already knew: some of its supporting screws were in tired holes that held vertically, but no longer facilitated tightening of the screws in them.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn some cases I replaced the boards with fresh ones. However, in one case I couldn&#8217;t without taking the whole panel apart. What to do?<\/p>\n<p>\nI decided to drill all the way through the old, tired screw hole, then put a bolt through it instead. God be praised, I was able to find, on hand, a combination of bolt and nut that would fit.<\/p>\n<p>The repair with the bolt seems to have worked.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about home maintenance: the tutor mentions a possible solution for a tired screw hole in wood. Working on the beloved old gate yesterday, I came face-to-face with a problem I already knew: some of its supporting screws were in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-maintenance-worn-out-screw-holes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home maintenance: worn-out screw holes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1138,2454],"tags":[3634,3635],"class_list":["post-49213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handyman-role","category-home-maintenance","tag-bolt","tag-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49215,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49213\/revisions\/49215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}