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Originally Posted by pb4uski
I think the easiest solution would be to get SS or brass wood screws as large in diameter as will fit through the hinge and as long as you can given the thickness of the deck material and the hinge... hopefully those will bite into the decking material enough to do the trick. If the hole is rounded out and too loose you can stuff the hole with some folded toothpicks to provide more bite.
Alternatively you could get some fasteners that fit your bolts like the piece on the right in the attached picture and install those into the wood (looks like they install with an hex wrench) and hopefully that should work.
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Originally Posted by travelover
If the wood is rotted, you can dry it out and use a diluted resin product like GitRot to firm it up. Then redrill it for a screw. That bolt looks like it originally threaded into a special type of T nut, which may have pulled out of the wood.
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Thought you guys who gave suggestions would like an update....
OK... finally got around to doing what I needed. Got GitRot, but they say you should use it when outside temp is below 70... well, that is NOT anytime in the summer or fall around here...
Also bought some syringes so I could put the GitRot in the holes easier... I did have a problem in that the holes in the wood were all the way through... tried to plug them, but the GitRot would still get around... drilled 3 holes 3/4 of the way through the wood around each hole.... for a total of 9 for each hinge...
Just to let people know... GitRot works GREAT... I would fill the hole and even put more on top... come back the next day and it is all gone!!! Do it again and again it is all gone... I think I had to put GitRot in 4 or 5 times until the wood stopped soaking it up... Now the wood is really hard...
Bought the inserts that pb4uski suggested... so this morning drilled the holes in the GitRot and screwed them in.... Now, I was starting to drill where the lifters were screwed in and guess what
THEY HAD INSERTS THERE!!!! They were deep in the hole, but I saw metal coming out and looked down inside and there were inserts.... where were the ones down where the hinges were located
But, the inserts went in and 5 of 6 were pretty strong.... one seemed to be holding well, but not great... Had the family help lift it up and screwed everything together....
So far, it is working great.... seems to be holding pretty strongly... as long as I get 5 to 7 years out of it I will be happy...
THANKS TO ALL FOR THE SUGGESTIONS.... this was one that I did not know at all... and seemed like the easiest to do...
BTW, there is a 'bump' you can feel under the pad on one of the locations... the GitRot was leaking as I said and pooled below and formed a cover on the wood... no big deal.... if you did not know I had put all this GitRot there you would just think it was something to do with the padding...