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Posted by John McGaw on September 24, 2007, 9:18 am
TheRegit wrote:
> I am painting the kitchen cabinets in my house that was built in
> 1963. The person that built it did everything themselves so nothing
> is standard size. The main problem I have with the cabinet doors is
> that some of the don't hang straight. I went to Home Depot to take a
> look at replacement hinges and can't find anything like I had before.
> Everything that was there required me to drill a huge hole in the
> backside of my cabinet doors, which is something I don't feel
> comfortable doing myself. What are my options?
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> My cabinets are like the image below where the vertial peice is the
> cabinet and the horizontal peice is the door. The door completely
> overlaps the side of the cabinet and the edge of the door is flush
> with the outside of the cabinet wall.
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> Can I take my doors somewhere and get the holes drilled? I would
> think if I went into a nice cabinet place they would tell me to take a
> hike since they aren't going to make any money on drilling some holes
> into someones existing doors? Would a store like Home Depot do it?
>
> Please help. I am going to be selling my house and I really don't
> want the kitchen cabinet doors that I just spent hours repainting to
> be hanging crooked.
>
> Thanks.
>
The "huge hole" hinges you refer to are likely 35mm "cup" hinges, AKA
"European" hinges. They are probably the last thing you want for your
application since the doors weren't designed to use them and drilling
the holes properly really is quite difficult without the proper tooling.
If the hinges you have now are not actually broken they can probably be
cleaned, tweaked, and re-used. If the holes in the doors or cabinets are
enlarged or in the wrong place they can be filled easily by sharpening a
small dowel in a pencil sharpener, gluing the tip and tapping it into
the hole, and then sawing off the excess. Repeat as necessary. Even if
your hinges border on the ancient, replacements are probably available
from a specialist supplier such as http://www.vandykes.com/ but anything
from the 20th century on should be available at a decent hardware store.
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com
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