gandalf wrote:
"bigbrian" wrote
The problem is that the dummy drawer front has detached itself
from the rest of the door.

It looks like it had been held on by a couple of metal pins
fitted into both the top of the door, and the bottom of the
dummy drawer front....these have both sheared offleaving the
top of the door..er...topless.

My next move is........?

Get the nails. (Screwfix catalogue must have something suitable
to give you an idea) whack a couple into the door. Use something
to hold the door from underneath. (wood blocks, telephone
directories or whatever) Then cut the heads off the nails at an
angle. Get a piece of wood, or something suitable, that is a
quarter inch thick. Put that between your now headless nails
and then whack the dummy drawer onto them.

'kinell. What sort of material is the door made from? If it's
natural timber, that might split it. If it's chipboard, it might
distort the surface. If you can't get the originals out and replace
them, you could drill out in a suitable place adjacent to the
original pins, and fit more there. If your drilling isn't exactly
accurate, make one side should be a tight fit on the pins, the
other oversize (diameter) - press the pins into the "tight" side,
put gap filling adhesive such as car body filler into the over-
size holes, put the thing back together (on a flat surface) PDQ
and peel off excess filler at the "rubbery" stage.


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