Had to take an interior door down last night to move our dining table into wife’s preferred room for our Thanksgiving gathering. Eventually wrestled the hinges free from the layers of paint the encased them, but am weary of re-hanging the door using the same old (and not entirely straight pins). Hinge is a full mortice, 3-knuckle with a finial attached to the bottom knuckle of the jamb, and the pin has a finial at the top. Would take some serious force to get the old pins back in the hinges. Was thinking of soaking the hinges in paint thinner, but am wondering if I can also use the re-installation as a chance to replace the old, heavily worn pins. I have an anxiety that the top finial might pop off at some point, especially if my bride likes Thursday’s dinner setting. Anyone have any experience on this front? Would prefer not to replace the old hinges, as they have a nice bit of detail… Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Had to take an interior door down last night to move our dining table into wife’s preferred room for our Thanksgiving gathering. Eventually wrestled the hinges free from the layers of paint the encased them, but am weary of re-hanging the door using the same old (and not entirely straight pins). Hinge is a full…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-26536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/11\/old-hinge-new-p\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"old hinge, new pin?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/11\/old-hinge-new-p\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/11\/old-hinge-new-p\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Brokers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Berkeley"}],"creator":["Berkeley"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2008-11-26T17:38:15Z","datePublished":"2008-11-26T17:38:15Z","dateModified":"2008-11-26T17:38:15Z"},"rendered":"