04-07-2020, 06:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2020, 06:31 PM by Duncan Grimmond.)
I have trued-up damaged hinges using a sheet-metal folder. If you're lucky it will be a fairly simple job of taking out the pin and separating the two leaves. Put the pin back into the strained one and clamp it in the folder with the barrel facing down, having dropped the apron of the folder enough to accommodate the barrel diameter. Gently raise the apron until the barrel is true.
Without a folder you can do it with a wooden punch having clamped the leaf between two lengths of angle iron, tapping each individual barrel gently until they all line up.
If the bonnet is still attached you will have much more of a problem but the solution is the same, using rubber to canvas to protect the bonnet.
As ever, most of the difficulty is getting the thing to stay still while you hit it!
Or bring it to Yorkshire and I'll do it for you...for the price of a pint in the newly re-opened pub across the road!
Without a folder you can do it with a wooden punch having clamped the leaf between two lengths of angle iron, tapping each individual barrel gently until they all line up.
If the bonnet is still attached you will have much more of a problem but the solution is the same, using rubber to canvas to protect the bonnet.
As ever, most of the difficulty is getting the thing to stay still while you hit it!
Or bring it to Yorkshire and I'll do it for you...for the price of a pint in the newly re-opened pub across the road!