Stephen Tashiro
12-05-2010, 3:17 PM
Are there any good tricks for aligning hinges and pins on doors so that they are all in a striaight line?
For example, to align the pins on the top and bottom of bifold doors, you could trust the top and bottom of the doors to be parallel and in the same plane and drill the holes for the pins by drilling in perpendicular to the ends of the door. But this is not a direct verification that the pins are indeed on the same line.
If you have a long enough ruler edge you could use it align the top and bottom hinges on a door, but I never have such a thing handy.
For example, to align the pins on the top and bottom of bifold doors, you could trust the top and bottom of the doors to be parallel and in the same plane and drill the holes for the pins by drilling in perpendicular to the ends of the door. But this is not a direct verification that the pins are indeed on the same line.
If you have a long enough ruler edge you could use it align the top and bottom hinges on a door, but I never have such a thing handy.