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You might be able to fix this with standard polystyrene cement, depending on how bad the damage is. I've found the best way to avoid this (and to make installing trucks less fiddly) is to put the screw into the bolster without the truck (to cut a thread) then remove it, fit the truck, and replace the screw. When using self-tapping screws in plastics it's a good idea to back off the screw (think one turn clockwise, then a quarter turn anticlockwise) every so often to allow cut plastic to clear - this helps avoid rounding off the screw head or splitting plastic parts.
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