Baggage Door Gas Spring

[weekender01]

Well this past weekend my gas spring locked up on the front baggage door and ripped out the bracket from the wall inside. I have ordered a new gas spring, but am trying to find a good solution on how to reattach the bracket to the wall. I could move it slightly but have done that once before so the entire area where I need to reattach to is just shreds of wood. I prefer not to replace the felt covered panel either,but may have to.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

[mlpeloquin]

What is on the other side of the panel? If it is open space, you can screw and glue a solid piece of wood and use longer screws to mount the gas spring. Another solution is, so long as the board is thick enough, drill out and epoxy a dowel into the hole. Both will fix the problem, but the wood needs to be thick enough to support he dowel.