Bob - Depends on whether or not you want to be able to remove them. If the plugs will be permanent then I use a little brown wood glue on dark wood, yellow glue on light wood. After the glue dries, trim the plug off near the wood surface, sand down even and then varnish over. For less permanent installations you can put a dab of silicone on the screw and press in the plug - but I don't find that holds very well. What I use is a dab of hot glue - a reall small dab, gently tap the plug into place, trim off and sand and varnish. The plug should dry fit tightly and shouldn't be loose in the hole. I have a set of plug cutters so I can pretty much match the plug to the hole. It's surprising how the holes grow once you've removed the plugs a couple of times so being able to cut your own plugs out of scrap teak or mahogany is nice. Teak doesn't really swell so don't expect it to fill the void like a soft wood. The trick to removing a plug is to drill a small pilot hole and th! en slow ly screw a small screw into the plug that's double the depth of the plug. Once it bottoms out on the screw underneath it will start driving the plug out. With something like Cetol you may want to either sand down over the plug to remove the finish or carefully score around the perimeter. -- Dave - just plugging along C27 #5212 Windabout Cape Cod http://dpbcc.home.comcast.net
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Last year I removed the sliding hatch teak trim. I never got around to > putting > the plugs back in over the screws that hold down the trim. All the teak > needs > refinishing so I'm now looking to do it. Should an adhesive of some type be > used? Should the plugs be inserted then watered so that they swell, dried out > (natural process), then finished? > What are your suggestions? > Bob Mann > '85, #5928 Windcatcher
--- Begin Message ---Last year I removed the sliding hatch teak trim. I never got around to putting the plugs back in over the screws that hold down the trim. All the teak needs refinishing so I'm now looking to do it. Should an adhesive of some type be used? Should the plugs be inserted then watered so that they swell, dried out (natural process), then finished?
What are your suggestions?
Bob Mann
'85, #5928
Windcatcher
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