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Old 27th September 2017, 03:33 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Good idea, but I don't have any, or the tools, but I worked out a slightly better bodge.

Popped to the local DIY shop and acquired some M6*25 bolts and nuts (only need 1 bolt!).
Inserted a bolt up through the hole from below and attached a nut from above. Checked location, length, ability to fit trim and then tightened the nut really hard to make a captive bolt.

Another nut and then a big washer and one more nut and we had a "platform" suitable to support my existing trim (after a bit of levelling/tidying on the underside).
Finished off with reusing the grotty washer from the original bodge (happened to be the right size) and final nut. Not elegant but it holds and can fairly easily be undone.
Could do with a cover for that recess though......
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