Gembo, I tend not to use matchsticks when plugging a stripped hole for a screw. Matchsticks are either pine or aspen and compress too easily. I use cocktail sticks, as they're generally made from birch and consequently a good bit harder and stronger. You can even use a pin hammer to tap them in.
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(36 posts)- Started 10 years ago by kaputnik
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Cocktail sticks are just the job. An alternative is to drill out a much larger hole and fill it with new wood, wood filler or epoxy resin and start afresh.
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Ah insto, every time I think along those lines I remember the small dent in father ted's car that they just try to bash out.
Might have some cocktail sticks if I light the fire with the match. Never made a cocktail that required a stick
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I like to think more of the guys in distilleries who would steal raw spirit by drilling a hole in the barrels, fill a bottle and then plug it with a pencil.
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My ex's dad used to tell a story of his times as a summer job binman in Glasgow when he was at nursing college.
They used to pick up the bins from the Distiller's Company at Port Dundas. They also used to go round the back afterwards and pick up some "other" bin bags that weren't thrown in the back of the bin lorry but were kept in the cab.
He never got to find out what was going on until the end of the summer they let him in on their secret. It was the filters out of some part of the distillation process. Were a bit like rolls of sodden loft insulation. The binmen would pick them up to smuggle them out of the distillery, they were then taken direct to someone's house where they were put in a twin tub and given a spin, action of which would draw the dregs of the spirit out, which was bottled and sold around the back doors of pubs in the east of Glasgow.
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Those were the days. Assume they used the spinner in the twin tub rather than the washing compartment? Though maybe a mangle would have worked better?
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