Thanks, I like that solution. I was concerned about trying to drill
into the end grain of a piece of hardwood with one half of the drill
while the other half is resting in the softer wood of the frame. I
still have to drill a hole where there's part of another hole already
existing (unless the sliver fills the hole rather neatly).
The toothpick solution sounds pretty good even for #12 screw holes. Two
or three pounded in with a small persuader along with some glue for
lubrication sounds like it will work well.
The remaining problem is there are about 20 doors to do each requiring
8-12 holes apiece counting door and frame. That's a lot of holes to
fill and drill.
Chuck Norcutt
Rand E wrote:
> 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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