It seemed in the past that there were many more sources and many more
designs of handle sets etc than appear now, so when you take off an old one
the new stuff never fits or leaves a bit of a hole out the side of the
handle set. Bah humbug.
Brian

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On Monday, 22 April 2019 21:07:24 UTC+1, wrote:
will conceal where the power drill went out the side of the door when I
was mortissing in a new latch barrel.

And drilled the spindle hole in on the bottom line of the latch instead of
the centre line.

I thought it would be a simple job to update the door handles, but the new
ones are knobs and the old ones are levers. The knobs are too close to the
edge of the door, so I have to fit new latches. The longer latches are too
long to fit in the stiles without bursting out into the panels, so I have
to make completely new latch holes.

The handles are also sprung, and two sprung handles and a latch is too
heavy a spring action, so I am manually despringing one or both of the
handles in the hope of getting a lighter action.

Now considering that putting in a new central heating system myself might
be a touch ambitious ...

Owain

It takes many years to start getting realistic about time estimates


NT