1st time home theater speaker build: Tritrix TL Tallboys, Tips and tricks?

[badman]

Re: 1st time home theater speaker build: Tritrix TL Tallboys, Tips and tricks?

After I initially set a screw into mdf or softwood (e.g., white pine), I back it out and fill the hole with wood glue and replace the screw. When dry (and hard), the glue is like a nut on the screw threads and it reinforces the surrounding material. The screw can easily be backed out in the future as wood glue won't adhere to the metal screw (unlike other glues like expoxy).

If you're going to do this, make sure you use something better than bog-standard zinc screws- they WILL stick pretty well to wood glue. Nickel, SS, black oxide, waxed, all should be fine. If you work quickly, you can do the same trick with cyanoacrylate (super glue) but you have to zip the screw in and immediately back it out. Use a couple different screws as you go around doing all the holes, as they'll heat up and the glue can stick (or just use the woodglue as above)