Can you glue pull knobs on kitchen drawers and doors?
jayhawk714
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I need to install pull knobs in our kitchen. The threaded shank on the pull knobs are not long enough to go all the way throught to use the washer and nut. Could a guy drill a hole the size of the shank and use some wood glue in the hole to secure the knob to the drawers/doors inteasd of counter sinking the back side big enough and deep enough to use the nut and washer?
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Can you glue pull knobs on kitchen drawers and doors?
I assume that your knobs are wooden.
If that is so, I would remove the threaded shank, drill a hole through the drawer/door big enough for a panhead wood screw. Get a screw big enough to grip where the threaded shank was and long enough to get through the panel. The head of the screw will not protrude much at all on the inside and you will have a much more secure device.
The answer to your question is yes, you could do what you propose, but no, you would not have a secure pull.
Forrest
Door pulls not wood.
The door/drawer pulls are made from the base of Elk antlers and I am sure they are glued in. So replacing them is not an option. Guess I'll have to do the drilling method.
Thanks for your reply, just hoped I could get away with not having to do that.
Drawer Pulls
How about a Tnut installed from the inside of the drawer? Or a threaded insert installed from the outside of the drawer?
I don’t see wood glue working, epoxy would be my choice to glue metal threads in a wood hole.
That said I wouldn’t do it.
You can drill a countersunk hole on the inside deep enough to get the nut on, or a threaded insert/T nut as mentioned.
Use JB Weld epoxy to glue the threaded part in the drawer front, make sure you coat both the hole and rod before assembly and whipe the excess with acetone or alcool.
Just install a threaded insert with matching threads on the face side of the door. This is quick and easy, but if you aren't familiar with them you should install a few in some scrap to get it right. The hole diameter has to be just right* and it's important to chamfer the edge of the hole with a counter sink.
* The recommended hole size in the directions may work, however you may need to go a touch larger depending on species.
Use. Longer. Screws.
Why overthink it?
Threaded insert is a better solution than epoxy, as rob wrote, practice before they tend to skew when entering the wood.
Let me make sure I understand your situation. You have antler drawer pulls with embedded screw(s). If it has 2 screws then you can't use the inserts. You can't use longer screws because they are embedded in the antler. So you want to fill the hole with glue.
I think that is a bad idea. High probability of failure and no good way to repair it. The best work rarely involves shortcuts. To make the pulls solid first fill the holes with epoxy. After it's fully cured, drill new properly sized holes with a countersink in the back to accommodate the washer and nut. Solid repair, will last a lifetime.
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