Carpenters Don't Tell You This! Repair Broken Hinges in Minutes With This Simple Japanese Trick!

Cabinet door sagging, scraping or hard to close? The problem usually isn’t the hinge. It’s the screw hole behind it. Here’s how to rebuild stripped hinge screw holes in particleboard cabinet doors, step by step, and the Japanese trick that makes the repair last for years. In Japan, a stripped screw hole is said to have “gone baka”: it still looks like a hole, but it has stopped doing its job. My father’s fix was always the same: put wood back into the wood. What’s in this video: Why cabinet hinge screws come loose The quick foam and super glue filler (and how to use it safely) Cleaning out the crumbled board Protecting the hinge-cup recess Filling and trimming flush Drilling the right pilot hole (core size, depth flag) Reattaching and adjusting the hinge to fix the sag The Japanese trick: chopsticks and wood glue, and the umeki dowel plug for heavy doors When not to repair