Jeffy3 wrote:
Over ten years ago I pretty much replaced all the doorknobs in our
house as the old ones were corroded or scuzzy looking. Our house is
over 50 years old and the hole in each door was sort of just a small
half
moon shape, or half circle shape, that the spindle went through and
then there were the two small round holes for the screws to connect
the two sides of the knob. Replacing them 10 years ago was easy. Now,
recently I had to replace another one and I went to two
different stores and it seems the standard now is the hole in the
door
is a large couple inch circle. Am I right that this is the new
standard? Or does
anyone know if I can still get the doorknobs that fit the smaller
half-
moon door hole?



There's plenty of the older style cast brass and/or glass doorknobs
available on eBay, like these:

http://tinyurl.com/cckqpd

About 7 years ago I adapted an antique doorknob onto the inside of the
modern lockset on our home's front door. I liked the finished appearance
so much I got carried away and during the next few months I did the same
thing for almost every other doorknob in our home:

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/jeff/knob.html

Jeff

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