Loose Drawer Pull Fix

Welcome back guys, it's the tightwad and today we are going to discuss the easiest way to fix an issue with a drawer pull Where the screw or bolt here seems to be too short to go into the hole So my daughter was messing with the drawer the other day and this came off and no matter how hard I push in from the back Side on this bolt. I can't get it to grab the threads Inside the drawer pull and that could be because the first couple of threads in here are worn off But I will show you an easy way to fix this that is a basically free Solution for the next part. I came to my basement. So this is the outside of the drawer and Here's the inside of the drawer right here where the bolt goes so if you know the bolt goes down in here and pushes flat up against this and then the pull goes up on the other side of it and And I could go to the hardware store and buy a slightly longer bolt and you should know that these are Fine thread bolts instead of course thread bolts so you can get one a quarter of an inch longer and it would absolutely work in this particular case because the Drawer pull that I have has a fairly deep hole in it But some of them have a very shallow hole with only six or seven threads in them So sometimes a longer bolt is not an option so another easier Method is to make this bolt sink farther down into the drawer because if you look There is a three quarter inch wide board here and then the drawer front. So I've got Almost an inch and a half between this and this that I can drill down in here or recess This hole so that the bolt actually fits down inside it enough to Grab the threads on this end. So I'm gonna test and make sure that I do have some good threads in here first And I do feel that after the first thread or two it grabs pretty well so I only need to drill down less than a quarter of an inch really about an eighth of an inch right here and to do that I Picked a drill bit that is slightly bigger than the head of my bolt. So it's got to be a little bit bigger so that the Bolt will actually go down inside it and then I'm just going to make sure I'm in forward here And since I already have a little pilot hole It's easy to know where it goes and I'm just gonna hit it lightly And it doesn't have to go very far at all I'm going to get some Sandpaper to clean off the edges of it. So it's nice and clean or If you have a countersink bit you can use that So I actually have a bit that's made like this It's one type of countersink bit and it'll just clean off the edges. I'll just put it down in here And it'll make it nice and clean on the sides there so now My bolt will fit through here and it exposes enough threads now for my drawer pull To screw on nice and tight So it's just that easy if your drawer pull will no longer stay on the bolt Just take your drill bit and drill a little bit of a deeper hole in the backside and it screws right on No need to spend any money on a longer bolt If you found this video helpful, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel after you subscribed ring that notifications bell So you'll know when I post more videos Click any of the videos shown on the screen right now, and they'll open right up on your device I hope you guys have a great day