Life hack: make a dowel from hot melt glue with a thread for a bolt in wood or concrete
There are times when you need to make a reliable thread in a hole drilled in wood, concrete, or brick. Naturally, cutting it will not work, since these are not the materials with which this is possible. You need to place a threaded dowel in such holes, and screw the screws and bolts into it. This dowel is made in 1 minute from hot glue.
Materials:
- Bolt or screw;
- hot glue;
- lubricant
The process of making dowels as an example
To make a threaded dowel, you must first drill a hole in the surface into which it will be installed. It could be wood, concrete, brick, etc. First, let's look at an example in working with wood. The hole must be larger in diameter than the screw or bolt being screwed in.
The screw is then coated with any lubricant.
Melted hot melt adhesive is poured into the hole.
Before it hardens, a lubricated screw is immediately inserted.
Now, when the glue has hardened, the screw can be easily unscrewed if necessary, since thanks to the lubricant the dowel does not stick to it.
Then you can cut off the sagging with a sharp knife and behold, you can’t distinguish it from the store-bought one.
This mount holds quite tightly, so it is ideal for light loads.
At any time, the screw can be unscrewed and then screwed back in.
This mount also works great in a concrete wall. Pre-lubricate the bolt.
Pour hot glue into the hole.
Insert the bolt.
Unscrew it back after hardening, cut off the sagging.
Now you can hang the desired item.
Regarding the concrete drill, this life hack is perfect when you drilled a hole larger than necessary, and a standard dowel does not fit.
