Hardware question-- any special products for this?

[Black]

An exterior gate handle had been smashed (vandalized) last year... I replaced it but the screw holes had been mangled a bit--- got both screws to seat but now the bottom one has come loose through daily stress.Talking about the screws on the latchplate. I think I had already gone with a slightly oversized screw.... is there anything they make to help keep a screw in a hole that's stripped? Or any favorite tricks? There's no access to the other side except for taking the whole thing out.

[Ken Sp.]

Screws into wood?
Expanding anchors like used in a wall for hanging pictures etc.
Epoxy?

[SDGuy]

Ken Sp. wrote:
Screws into wood?

:agree:

Need to know what kind of material we're talkin' about here - are the screws going into wood? metal? carbon fiber? transparent aluminum?

[mstudio]

I've glued in a golf tee then drilled the correct hole after the glue dried.

[rgG]

For going into wood, I have shoved several toothpicks in, then put the screw in, and it helped tighten it up.

[Black]

Sorry, it's a wrought iron gate designed to accept a standard entry handle like this:


I don't know if I could get a useful amount of wood stuffed down into the right place.

[mattkime]

this thread is useless without pics!

[Black]

Sorry, this type of gate is so standard around Chicago it didn't occur to me that nobody here would have a concept of what I was referring to.
Probably won't be straying far from my bed to get a pic... trying to get over an ear/throat infection without much progress.

[Ken Sp.]

Is it the screws holding the brass plates and the door knob to the door---or the screws that hold the striker or striker plate(Not Pictured)

For metal Helicoil
https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww#hl=en&q=helicoil

[Mike Johnson]

I can't really picture it. But maybe a nutsert with a machine screw? Or forget the screws and braze the thing into place? Or if it's a hollow space, put in some expanding foam, let it cure, hollow it out to make a cavity and squirt some JB weld into the space?