Fix free spinning mobo standoffs?

[scottfree1_01]

Any suggestions on fixing stripped out holes on your mobo tray, it's a cooler master haf xb evo which cm sells a replacement tray but is out of stock, and my new mobo arrives tomorrow so I'd like to figure a way to fix it now, jb weld "steel epoxy putty" = fail..

 

[bitwright]

Screw in the standoff as well as you can, then when installing your motherboard hold the standoff still with a pair of needle nose pliers as you screw down the screw. That's not really going to fix the stripped holes, but it will at least let you install your motherboard.

 

[littleleo]

Perhaps a very small washer or two so you don't hit the stripped section when you tighten it. And don't try to tighten it so much.

 

[scottfree1_01]

Thanks I think I got it, the putty worked when I put it on from the top pretty much gluing them in place but some I could only get at from below and those didn't take hold, I've got the tray out now so I can get at them now, it's ugly but it'll due 4 now