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Loose hinges get a metal fix on The Reynolds Recommend

A screw-hole repair demonstration draws the week's largest new-upload audience, while viewers offer dowels, glue and golf tees as alternatives.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

The perfect tool 😮

The toothpicks have defenders. The Reynolds Recommend's most watched new upload demonstrates metal inserts for stripped screw holes, but the conversation underneath returns to familiar workshop fixes.

In November 7's "The perfect tool 😮", hands hammer small inserts into damaged hinge holes, then drive screws into them to secure the hinge. A recessed cabinet hinge gets the same treatment. This is a promotional product demonstration; the channel says it may earn commissions through its product links.

The clip presents toothpicks as an older solution that can pull loose. Viewers supply an important detail: wood glue. Several describe using glued toothpicks or dowels, while others suggest a golf tee. One lays out the whole dowel method, from drilling the hole to cutting the repair flush and making a pilot hole.

That demonstration reached roughly 49,000 views among fifteen uploads this week. It also has the strongest daily momentum on the channel, with October's "Every handy man needs this 😮" close behind. The older upload has accumulated about 1.7 million views, giving the practical-tool catalog another active entry beyond the new hinge repair.

The wider week was slower: daily views are running at less than a fifth of the usual pace, and the subscriber count was unchanged. Among nearby shopping and product-testing channels, Maggie McGaugh had a substantially larger weekly audience, while Esquire had a smaller one. For The Reynolds Recommend, the liveliest discussion is a very specific DIY question: what belongs in a worn-out screw hole?

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What viewers say

drill hole, tap glued dowel in, cut flush, pilot hole, screw on hinge. how Ive always done it and never had to do it again on the same door.
@PSYCOPATHICPINEAPPLESee it on YouTube
And if you can't get them in a pinch use a golf tee 👍
@williamharkenrider3842See it on YouTube
… just use wood glue with the toothpicks
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