Chuck,
Not that difficult. Just take a sliver ( about the same size as the
existing hole or ~ 1/8" ) of the same type of wood and drive it into the
old hole (irregular form and with or without glue ). The newly placed
screw will make the sliver expand and grip just like it was fresh wood.
For smaller holes a wooden round toothpick works great. Don't be afraid
to fill the old hole, the surrounding wood is almost always quite soft
and will take the expansion and give a good grip.
Rand E.
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Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 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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