never assume......check

[Theorysparky]

Started a job yesterday kitchen refurb...

met daughter at property (empty) leaves me a back door key but locks the front door on the way out.

so crack on with testing and need to go out to the van for more kit

out the back door round the corner DOH !

padlock on the back gate :_|

i must have climbed over the gate a dozen times.....

customer phones me in the evening asking how i got on....

told her bless ,,,,,, she was so embarrased :^O

hopefully its sorted for this morning !!!!

 

[m4tty]

Lol that will keep you fit mate

 

[ianmacd]

But not so easy climing over with the large drill and transformer.

 

[Apache]

Theory - could you not have unscrewed the hinges and replaced afterwards?

 

[AAAMUSEMENTS]

Theory - could you not have unscrewed the hinges and replaced afterwards?

Find me a gate where the hinge screws haven't rusted beyond hope of removal and I will be very impressed!

 

[Apache]

Find me a gate where the hinge screws haven't rusted beyond hope of removal and I will be very impressed!

Come to my house - I used brass screws (oak gate)

 

[philbas]

Now your just showing off

 

[a1]

Find me a gate where the hinge screws haven't rusted beyond hope of removal and I will be very impressed!

Come to my house - I used brass screws (oak gate)

And my house too.

 

[ianmacd]

Come to my house - I used brass screws (oak gate)

And my house too.

You share a house?

 

[Doc Hudson]

You share a house?

On the ball today ian!

Doc H.

 

[Badger]

Find me a gate where the hinge screws haven't rusted beyond hope of removal and I will be very impressed!

take a look at these screws been in years and still able to be gotten out

View attachment 542

 

[Evans Electric]

I do not believe that I have just taken a look at the screws in the hinges on Badge's back gate !!!

 

[NozSpark]

Glad you didn't say passage there Deke or this thread would have got real daft real quick

 

[Andy™]

why go for the hinges... most gate locks you can unscrew the lock plate!

 

[PC Electrics]

Started a job yesterday kitchen refurb...met daughter at property (empty) leaves me a back door key but locks the front door on the way out.

so crack on with testing and need to go out to the van for more kit

out the back door round the corner DOH !

padlock on the back gate :_|

i must have climbed over the gate a dozen times.....

customer phones me in the evening asking how i got on....

told her bless ,,,,,, she was so embarrased :^O

hopefully its sorted for this morning !!!!

no angle grinder on the van then?

 

[AAAMUSEMENTS]

Sorry, I made this thread go a bit off there...



Most of the gate hinges I have had the misfortune to try and remove have been done decades ago.... in poor quality, slotted screws.

Not many people used nice shiny plated, or stainless, or yes brass (as you say essential for oak due the the natural acidity of the wood) way back when!