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Router door hindge recess?
On Jun 22, 11:15 pm, "Brian G" wrote:
BTW, with the hinge screw slots, you normally only 'line' these up on hardwood doors and frames or those that are stained/polished - what the point when they are going to be covered with enough paint to fill the screw slots anyway? I wouldn't paint normally paint brass hinges/screws, but steel hinges with pozi screws would look better with a coat of paint. ) As a matter of interest, have you tried removing a screw with its slots completely filled with paint that years old? I just clear the slot with a jewellers screwdriver. If it was really stubbon paint I'd try to soften it with a soldering iron bit first. cheers, Pete. Brian G |
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On 24 Jun, 12:21, Pete C wrote:
On Jun 22, 11:15 pm, "Brian G" wrote: BTW, with the hinge screw slots, you normally only 'line' these up on hardwood doors and frames or those that are stained/polished - what the point when they are going to be covered with enough paint to fill the screw slots anyway? I wouldn't paint normally paint brass hinges/screws, but steel hinges with pozi screws would look better with a coat of paint. ) As a matter of interest, have you tried removing a screw with its slots completely filled with paint that years old? I just clear the slot with a jewellers screwdriver. If it was really stubbon paint I'd try to soften it with a soldering iron bit first. cheers, Pete. Brian G Done it often: tap around with a nail punch and hammer, to chip off old paint ditto on the hinge leaf itself to try to break hard paint holding screw clean slot with old screwdriver and hammer try to tighten screw slightly to break bond - long handled screwdriver useful as it stays in place better if it tightens just a click you know it will unscrew but if it slips you haven't spoilt the other edge of the slot so you still have a chance if it won't tighten then try a bit of heat if no joy then go for loosening, with great care as once slot edge spoiled then no chance impact screwdriver sometimes useful but can break screw cheers Jacob |
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Router door hindge recess?
On Jun 21, 12:28 pm, "Vass" wrote:
Can you use a router to make the recess for door hindges on the door and frame? plus the door catch recess's any links to jigs or methods I don't normaly bother with long threads but since it is my cup of tea and there are still a few pointers you could use here are a couple not covered so far. No doubt they will be a time or two in the not too distant. First off, using a router to cut door hinges is a skilled job. Setting it up is, at least. It requires as much knowledge as does using hand tools. Maybe more. I have the Trend door jig but it will stay in its box until I get 4 doors or more for it. I wouldn't hesitate if it was already set up but it is new and needs fettling. You could do the job a lot more quickly with an inch and a half chisel and a hammer but then you would never find out how to use the router. Either way, the door has to be fitted first. This is half the job once you have the experience. The door needs to be put in the frame with packers or wedges and checked for equal spaces all around. The ideal is top and sides equal and about 2 mm - about the thickness of a 2p coin. The bottom needs to clear your carpet. If unfitted, allow 10 or 15 mm depending on whether you are going to have underlay. Ensure all the other edges are parallel before cutting anything down. And of course check the door top to see which side the lock goes. Once you are satisfied it fits you can measure and mark the hinge positions. 6 or 7 inches and down from the top, 8 or 9 and up from the bottom. The idea is to clear the rails (in the good old days) and to make the hinge butts look as though they are equally spaced afterwards. (An optical illusion.) You can mark the frame and door simultaneously. Now decide how you are going to proceed. If you have a long enough cutter, you can just rebate the length of the hinge in one run. The cutter needs to be long enough to deal with the architrave. Use a piece of wood as a fence long enough to stop the router going past the mark for the bottom hinge. Another scrap tacked above the but at a suitable distance to act as a stop for the other side will allow you to cut the rebate without gong too far. the improvised fence needs to be 2 inches shorter for the top hinge. The scrap piece tacked onto the frame will be the same distance as used on the bottom. For a middle hinge a couple of scraps tacked to the frame will suffice. The scrap used as a fence should still be used though. Cut into the wood deep enough to bury all but the amount of cutter you will need to actually do the work and the fence will be your depth gauge. You will see how it all comes together if you practise on a few bits of scrap. Once you are happy that you are proficient enough, have a go on the real thing. Personally I'd remove the architrave if it is an old frame. Or more likely if the frame is old I would just cut into the door and use the old housings cut into the frame for the previous door. As you can see a sharp chisel is a lot quicker if you don't have things already set up. With a chisel just mark the outline of the hinge and chop the depth into the mark that runs parallel to the rebate in the frame. Two smat whacks is just about all you need. Then going by eye, guess how much you need to take off. If the frame is a good one, chop into the side of the frame. If it is poor timber, run down the width of the hinge housing, hazing out the stuff you want removed then insert the chisel to pare it out. Put the hinge in and check for wabble. If it is too deep you will have to pack it with a bit of hard card. Not corrugated cardboard. Cereal box or the package the hinge came in might do. If you are happy with the depth but it wabbles, put the hinge in on edge so you can look along the frame to see what needs paring away. Practice with a few scraps will get you proficient in a morning and you should cope well with the right chisel and a steady hand in about 1/4 of an hour per hinge. If you can fit your first door in a couple of hours one way or the other, you will be doing well. Don't rush it. As with all things do it yourself (except for plumbing and electrical stuff) the aim is to have fun. |
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As you can see a sharp chisel is a lot quicker if you don't have things already set up. With a chisel just mark the outline of the hinge and chop the depth into the mark that runs parallel to the rebate in the frame. Two smat whacks is just about all you need. But you need to know how to sharpen the chisel |
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normanwisdom wrote:
On 24 Jun, 12:21, Pete C wrote: On Jun 22, 11:15 pm, "Brian G" wrote: BTW, with the hinge screw slots, you normally only 'line' these up on hardwood doors and frames or those that are stained/polished - what the point when they are going to be covered with enough paint to fill the screw slots anyway? I wouldn't paint normally paint brass hinges/screws, but steel hinges with pozi screws would look better with a coat of paint. ) As a matter of interest, have you tried removing a screw with its slots completely filled with paint that years old? I just clear the slot with a jewellers screwdriver. If it was really stubbon paint I'd try to soften it with a soldering iron bit first. cheers, Pete. Brian G Done it often: tap around with a nail punch and hammer, to chip off old paint ditto on the hinge leaf itself to try to break hard paint holding screw clean slot with old screwdriver and hammer try to tighten screw slightly to break bond - long handled screwdriver useful as it stays in place better if it tightens just a click you know it will unscrew but if it slips you haven't spoilt the other edge of the slot so you still have a chance if it won't tighten then try a bit of heat if no joy then go for loosening, with great care as once slot edge spoiled then no chance impact screwdriver sometimes useful but can break screw cheers Jacob Jacob, I'm a very old hand at it - some 40 years of fitting and repairing many doors and windows. The method I use is simply an old screwdriver shaft, belt that with a hammer to clear the paint around the slot, use the same method to clear the slot then hold the shaft in the slot itself and give a couple of 'smart' taps to loosen the screw thread and using a long handled and well fitting screw driver, try and tighten the screw first half a turn and then undo - and scream all sorts of obscenities when the screw breaks or the slot gets damaged :-) The ones I really hate are pozidrive/Phillips type screws when they are full of paint or the 'slots' rounded off because an incorrect driver was used - or fitted using a battery operated screwdriver without a 'pres-set' clutch or worn bit - or just ham-fistedness, grrrrr! As a matter of interest, it's good practice to fit new screws when refitting the hinge rather than re-use the old ones - from my observations over the years, that's not always obvious to the younger members of the 'trade' and some lesser experienced D-I-Yrs and very often leads to the rapid application of a 'plaster' to the damaged finger or hand... The joys of the trade and D-I-Y eh! Brian G |
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Stuart Noble wrote:
As you can see a sharp chisel is a lot quicker if you don't have things already set up. With a chisel just mark the outline of the hinge and chop the depth into the mark that runs parallel to the rebate in the frame. Two smat whacks is just about all you need. But you need to know how to sharpen the chisel http://www.seadercraft.com/model_woodwork.html Brian G |
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Weatherlawyer wrote:
First off, using a router to cut door hinges is a skilled job. Setting it up is, at least. It requires as much knowledge as does using hand tools. Maybe more. One handy trick when setting a limit to the depth of cut: plunge the router such that the cutter is in contact with the rebate surface. On a frame without stops this will be flush with the base of the router, and on one with stops it will be through the base plate of the router by the stop thickness. Place one leaf of the hinge on the top of the currently selected depth stop on the turret (assuming T5 style routers here), and drop the depth bar down such that it sits on the other side of the hinge and lock it in position. You will now have the stop set such that you can plunge only a hinge thickness further. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 24 Jun, 16:11, "Brian G" wrote:
Stuart Noble wrote: As you can see a sharp chisel is a lot quicker if you don't have things already set up. With a chisel just mark the outline of the hinge and chop the depth into the mark that runs parallel to the rebate in the frame. Two smat whacks is just about all you need. But you need to know how to sharpen the chisel http://www.seadercraft.com/model_woodwork.html Brian G It's swap sharpening links time! Here's mine: http://www.owdman.co.uk/joinery/sharpening.htm cheers Jacob |
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normanwisdom wrote:
On 24 Jun, 16:11, "Brian G" wrote: Stuart Noble wrote: As you can see a sharp chisel is a lot quicker if you don't have things already set up. With a chisel just mark the outline of the hinge and chop the depth into the mark that runs parallel to the rebate in the frame. Two smat whacks is just about all you need. But you need to know how to sharpen the chisel http://www.seadercraft.com/model_woodwork.html Brian G It's swap sharpening links time! Here's mine: http://www.owdman.co.uk/joinery/sharpening.htm cheers Jacob Rounded bevels? Whatever next! |
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On Jun 24, 3:20 pm, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Jun 21, 12:28 pm, "Vass" wrote: Can you use a router to make the recess for door hindges on the door and frame? plus the door catch recess's any links to jigs or methods I don't normaly bother with long threads but since it is my cup of tea and there are still a few pointers you could use here are a couple not covered so far. No doubt they will be a time or two in the not too distant. First off, using a router to cut door hinges is a skilled job. Setting it up is, at least. It requires as much knowledge as does using hand tools. Maybe more. Absolute rubbish! It's far less skilled than using a chisel. At least it is with my home made jig (less than 30mins to make). The only setting up is knowing where the hinge is to go. Clamp the jig in position, set the cutter depth, rout, square the corners with a chisel. Hinge rebating - done! MBQ |
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normanwisdom wrote:
On 24 Jun, 16:11, "Brian G" wrote: Stuart Noble wrote: As you can see a sharp chisel is a lot quicker if you don't have things already set up. With a chisel just mark the outline of the hinge and chop the depth into the mark that runs parallel to the rebate in the frame. Two smat whacks is just about all you need. But you need to know how to sharpen the chisel http://www.seadercraft.com/model_woodwork.html Brian G It's swap sharpening links time! Here's mine: http://www.owdman.co.uk/joinery/sharpening.htm cheers Jacob Jacob, Very interesting - but when I was an apprentice some 40 years ago, if I produced a 'rounded' bevel on a chisel or plane iron I got 'rounded' - an open hand 'around' the earhole with the instructions to re-grind the f*****g thing and do it properly this time! Now what about the amateur and the novice sharpening a hand saw - or even worse a tenon saw? And this was in the days before 'jack-saws' and 'hard points' were even though off! Ah the fun of it all! Brian G |
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