{"id":1263,"date":"2019-12-17T08:31:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T08:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2020-07-16T04:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T04:24:34","slug":"stripped-threads-on-tamiya-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Stripped threads on Tamiya cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holes on the Tamiya plastic parts strip quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The plastic body parts are too weak to withstand frequent screw and unscrew operations.<\/p>\n<p>When there is a stripped screw hole, the best thing to do would be to insert a small toothpick into it prior to tightening the screw. I learned this trick from those who repair homes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.32.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1259\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.32.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"1599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.32.jpeg 799w, https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.32-150x300.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.32-512x1024.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.32-768x1536.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.48.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1258\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.48.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"1599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.48.jpeg 799w, https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.48-150x300.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.48-512x1024.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-12-17-at-11.48.48-768x1536.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holes on the Tamiya plastic parts strip quickly. The plastic body parts are too weak to withstand frequent screw and unscrew operations. When there is a stripped screw hole, the best thing to do would be to insert a small toothpick into it prior to tightening the screw. I learned this trick from those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}