Quote Originally Posted by Dedman View Post
crude way to make a plug....take a bit of dowel or roughly shaped but over length bit timber, drill into the end, drive in a screw part way, cut the head off and put the shaft in a drill. Rasp/sandpaper to size while it spins in the drill. Cut to length. Rough but I've used the method and it worked.
I do, and have done, on a few occasions, exactly what Dedman suggests, that is shaping a piece of dowel.