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Posted by mm on May 5, 2007, 5:53 pm
>mm wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking for a way to keep rain/snow from directly hitting and
>>> shortening the life of the exterior door knobs/locks on a storage and
>>> tool shed. They are metal doors.
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Maybe you can use the styrofoam semi-spheres that they sell in the
>> fall to keep the outside faucets from freezing.
>I thought about those. It seems a good idea if I could figure a way to
>hold them in place. The little piece of plastic that fastens around a
>faucet won't work with a door knob. Or will it? My imagination isn't
>what it used to be.
Well, the ones I got have a black plastic coated metal hook curved
about an inch and a half in diameter that does hook better around a
spigot, because my spouts bend down at 45 degrees, and my faucet
handle goes up at 90 degrees. I end up hooking it on the spout.
But the thing is metal and could be bent, or the curve could be opened
up more. So maybe the hook could be big enough to go around the shaft
of the doorknob, and at an angle closer to or at 90 degrees, to go
behind the ball part.
It's held on by a wing nut on the other end of the metal rod, which is
threaded, although I don't know how far down. The nut has to be
backed off an inch or more to give enough slack to remove the thing.
This mean the metal rod sticks out 2 or 3 inches from the styrofoam,
which isn't as neat and tidy as I would want, but I've gotten used to
it, especially at the rear faucet that I never see unless I look for
it. Even at the one I see everytime I come inthe house I don't dwell
on it. ;)
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