Thanks. Since you're about the sixth person to suggest this it's gotta
be the way. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Geilfuss Charles wrote:
> Chuck,
> I've run across this situation before and took a slightly less
> craftsmanship approach. Take enough toothpicks to snugly fill the hole,
> dip in some Gorilla glue, jam then in the hole and trim flush to the
> board. When hardened, drill your hole and you are done. Plate covers the
> ugliness.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Chuck Norcutt
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:37 PM
> To: Olympus mail list
> Subject: [OM] [way OT] Household project advice
>
> 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.
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