Coffee stirrer trick

[bassbenj]

in what way is actually fixing a stripped hole "destructive", and why would you ever want to "reverse" the fix? for that matter, how? would you try to deliberately strip it out again?

sorry, but this literally makes no sense.

Come on Walter! If you've got a valuable vintage jazz bass, everybody knows that the screws on the control plate will be stripped out! And you don't want the destroy the value of it with glue and a permanent fix. So this way with the stirrers you get to have a tight control plate while you use the bass and then when the time comes to flip it, you simply reverse the process, pulling out the straws returning the classic to it's former pristine stripped screw glory! Simple.