Eight years of tightening and replacing cabinet and fixture screws became an... ART. I have yet to understand why Airstream has not found a screw that will stay permanently...
Our 2014 25 footer already has required screwing... and no hardware or hinge is immune to backing out of the materials used for the interiors. Well... I found some fixes.
Fix Number ONE:
Piano or Strip Hinges that come in 36 inch or 48 inch strips. Cut to fit and they use a large number of wood screws. It is labor intensive for drilling small pilot holes, so not to split the finish.. but they hold. Somewhere in Boondocking years ago I illustrated some replacement hinges and they never needed to be tightened again! This was the permanent fix. Remove the original hinges and insert the strip hinges in their place. If you cannot do it, a cabinet shop could in less time and do a better job.
Fix Number TWO:
All possible doors and drawers that could open on their own... secure by tying a rope to a secure available spot. Never had a problem of open cabinets or drawers in our 2006 Safari again.
Fix Number THREE in progress:
My wife found a loose short screw that attaches the male plastic closer for the cabinet door. Vibrated loose on an easy road trip from Colorado to Las Vegas and back this Summer. Other odds and ends came out of hiding places, but were from the Jackson Center installation process and dropped to disappear. Well, we have a few extra screws and some things we cannot identify, but keeping them handy just in case.
Fix number three is where I am at this moment. I am considering using "Elmer's Glue" or a wood glue to cement the screws into the fixtures. It should be permanent. Maybe permanent is a future problem if, for some obscure reason, the wood screw needs to be removed.
I would like to avoid installing strip hinges on a new trailer. Time will tell. Has anyone used a wood glue like Elmer's to secure screws backing out while traveling? An inexpensive cure if it works. I can think of at least one disadvantage... the cheaply made door closers that have the male and female locking system... the female plastic in the cabinet splits apart. I know, we bought spares while in Jackson Center in 2008. Some of you may have experienced this problem. We tried the compression springs, but they were not as secure... thus the ropes to keep the doors from opening on any left to right motion.
The long screws that attach the cabinets to the frame of the shell... just be careful they are not longer than the original when using a larger diameter screw. That took care of the cabinet screws to frame coming loose.
Last comment. If axles are responsible for the screws coming loose... well my new 2014 had better not have axle problems. I lean more towards the road vibration provides the "physics", providing the release of tension of the spiral screw towards least resistance... backing out. Hot and cold will back nails out of house gutters and wood, that does not apply. Automobile bolts are designed different to substructure and they always seem to tighten with use, not become loose. Maybe some with similar experiences can add to this incomplete report of my solutions.
Has anyone used wood glue to secure cabinet screws? Just sounds too simple of a fix... but simple is good enough for me.
Our 2014 25 footer already has required screwing... and no hardware or hinge is immune to backing out of the materials used for the interiors. Well... I found some fixes.
Fix Number ONE:
Piano or Strip Hinges that come in 36 inch or 48 inch strips. Cut to fit and they use a large number of wood screws. It is labor intensive for drilling small pilot holes, so not to split the finish.. but they hold. Somewhere in Boondocking years ago I illustrated some replacement hinges and they never needed to be tightened again! This was the permanent fix. Remove the original hinges and insert the strip hinges in their place. If you cannot do it, a cabinet shop could in less time and do a better job.
Fix Number TWO:
All possible doors and drawers that could open on their own... secure by tying a rope to a secure available spot. Never had a problem of open cabinets or drawers in our 2006 Safari again.
Fix Number THREE in progress:
My wife found a loose short screw that attaches the male plastic closer for the cabinet door. Vibrated loose on an easy road trip from Colorado to Las Vegas and back this Summer. Other odds and ends came out of hiding places, but were from the Jackson Center installation process and dropped to disappear. Well, we have a few extra screws and some things we cannot identify, but keeping them handy just in case.
Fix number three is where I am at this moment. I am considering using "Elmer's Glue" or a wood glue to cement the screws into the fixtures. It should be permanent. Maybe permanent is a future problem if, for some obscure reason, the wood screw needs to be removed.
I would like to avoid installing strip hinges on a new trailer. Time will tell. Has anyone used a wood glue like Elmer's to secure screws backing out while traveling? An inexpensive cure if it works. I can think of at least one disadvantage... the cheaply made door closers that have the male and female locking system... the female plastic in the cabinet splits apart. I know, we bought spares while in Jackson Center in 2008. Some of you may have experienced this problem. We tried the compression springs, but they were not as secure... thus the ropes to keep the doors from opening on any left to right motion.
The long screws that attach the cabinets to the frame of the shell... just be careful they are not longer than the original when using a larger diameter screw. That took care of the cabinet screws to frame coming loose.
Last comment. If axles are responsible for the screws coming loose... well my new 2014 had better not have axle problems. I lean more towards the road vibration provides the "physics", providing the release of tension of the spiral screw towards least resistance... backing out. Hot and cold will back nails out of house gutters and wood, that does not apply. Automobile bolts are designed different to substructure and they always seem to tighten with use, not become loose. Maybe some with similar experiences can add to this incomplete report of my solutions.
Has anyone used wood glue to secure cabinet screws? Just sounds too simple of a fix... but simple is good enough for me.
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