Our new/old 1957 house has door hinges that are truly showing their age.
All are considerably rusting to one degree or another and the brass
plating is probably at least 50% gone on most. The door knobs were the
same way so we went to Lowe's and bought a zillion door knobs, striker
plates and hinges.
We started with the door knobs and striker plates and replaced all of
them with no problems except for minor repositioning of the striker
plates on a few. Then we were going to start on the hinges today. Come
to find out 1957 hinges and 2007 hinges don't necessarily line up with
respect to screw holes. The hinge pin is the proper distance from the
center screw hole so the door is not mispositioned if the center screw
is reinstalled. However, the other two screw holes are about 1/2 hole
width mispositioned both laterally and vertically to be able to use the
other two existing screw holes in the door and frame.
The only way I know of to fix this problem is to drill out the wrongly
positioned existing holes and glue in a short length of dowel to fill
the hole. Then redrill for the screws. Anybody know an easier solution?
Chuck Norcutt
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