Lovely old heavy wooden pedestrian gate- huge old hinges worn so gate dropped at latch side...

Hinges must have getting on for 1/2 inch play in them -sideways iyswim.

Getting new ones as nice will be hard & expensive so pondering ways to repair originals-

In the past someone has rolled some sheet steel? Tin? To fit around the hinge pins - this has worn through.

Worst case would be trying to weld up & redrill.

Car body filler? What would it's wear rate be like? Hinge pivot points are "enclosed" from weather so could be packed with grease...

Or?

Cheers
Jim K