Chipboard Repair

I don't totally understand the damage from the description. In a typical stripped out screw hole we will take a bundle of toothpicks or something like that, glom them with wood glue and tap them into the hole. Let dry, trim flush, screw away.

A pencil sharpener will put a cone on a small dowel. Cut the cone off and glue it in the old screw hole. After trimming the cone flush, drill a pilot hole and insert the new screw. You can also whittle the cones, but a pencil sharpener is quicker.

If you have a largish area of tear out, you can fill with enough sawdust and glue to make a thick mixture and fill, let dry day or so, then sand, color the repair with a wax stick to match, then redrill You could also fill with a reddish tinted bondo, (a little more hardener in the mix) and redrill If just a small tear out of the hole, then fill with a piece of glued in dowel and redrill with a good brad point bit. Better yet, drill with a hinge centering bit which will prevent the hole from getting off center in the hinge plate, CC

Car body filler works 100% for this. I have repaired old cupboards with hinges torn out time and again.

Ordinary woodfillers are much too weak for this, go with car body filler.

The recessed hinges should be available at any BM or diy shed. There are 2 sizes, and a few different opening patterns. Or you might have sprung surface hinges - who knows.

NT

What sort of hinges & where is the damage in relation to them? Picky?

The hinges are a flush fitting flap hinges. They look like a number 8. The damage to the wood isn't there though. The hinges themselves smashed at the pin which makes them unusable now. Part metal, part plastic these things were!! The damage to the wood is where the fall flap stays were attached. The actual stays weren't damaged, just the locations where they were mounted.

A pic wuld be nice,we can all mae assumptions how to repair it but some types of repair are not fiting for the job.

Exactly.

Car body filler every time.

The Hinges -

You might find a suitable replacement hinge here:

Note: Their catalogues are the big PDF documents and have *lots* of hinges and detail in them - including fixing positions, screw sizes, etc.

If so, you (probably) can get them from:

even if it needs a special order.

tidied up the damage with filler.

there, no need to go out and get anything.

NT