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Default Mortice lock not closing

On 27/07/2012 10:41, Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:
stuart noble wrote:

Block the old screw holes with matchsticks...


I've often used bits of cocktail sticks and kebab sticks for this kind of
thing, both useful because they are pointy, so can be broken off an dlightly
hammered into the holes.


Yes, I'm way out of date. Who has matches any more? :-)