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Internal door hanles
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:57:26 +0100, Dave
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Wife has decided to change 8 sets of door handles and guess what? All
the securing screws are not at the same pitch as the ones we have now :-(
What I propose to do is buy some doweling and a spade drill slightly
smaller than the dowel. If the spade drill is making too large a
diameter hole, I'll grind the side edge until it makes a tight fit for
the dowel and then glue the dowel in to provide a blank location for the
door handle attachment screws.
Can anyone see a problem with this, apart from the fact that the screws
will be going down the grain, instead of across it.
Dave
Seems like a Sledgehammer To Crack A Nut solution. If you must do it
that way ( and I cannot for the life of me see the need) then use an
ordinary drill. Better just to poke a slither of wood in to the
existing hole to take up some space ..a matchstick is the time
honoured way .
I did that last time I changed the door handles. Now, some of the screws
are very close to the new holes I need. ie overlapping.
Dave
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