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**8man** · 09-02-2018, 01:14 PM

Today is a new day, but the offending hinge was still stuck.

IMG_2016 (1) by Robert Moorman, on Flickr

I fought with it for half an hour before I finally resigned myself to cutting it out.

First I had to make some room to get a saw in to cut the pin. So I used the cut off wheel to take the top of the hinge off.

IMG_2017 (1) by Robert Moorman, on Flickr

Then I started with the Sawzall. It had one long steel cutting blade, but it was old and dull. So back up plan was a hack saw blade, by hand.

IMG_2018 (1) by Robert Moorman, on Flickr

So after half an hour of cutting with one hand, the pin was cut enough that I could break it with some long needle nose pliers and get the top of the pin and the hinge out.

IMG_2019 (1) by Robert Moorman, on Flickr

The pin had backed out of the top hinge about 3/8", it backed out of the bottom hinge over 1".

NOW, if I could find some willing sole to sell me two rebuildable drivers door hinges, cheap enough that I could rebuild them. Just the bottom would work if anybody has one.

09-02-2018, 01:14 PM	#116
8man Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Bryan, Texas Posts: 2,287	Re: Wife's 48 Today is a new day, but the offending hinge was still stuck. IMG_2016 (1) by Robert Moorman, on Flickr I fought with it for half an hour before I finally resigned myself to cutting it out. First I had to make some room to get a saw in to cut the pin. So I used the cut off wheel to take the top of the hinge off. IMG_2017 (1) by Robert Moorman, on Flickr Then I started with the Sawzall. It had one long steel cutting blade, but it was old and dull. So back up plan was a hack saw blade, by hand. IMG_2018 (1) by Robert Moorman, on Flickr So after half an hour of cutting with one hand, the pin was cut enough that I could break it with some long needle nose pliers and get the top of the pin and the hinge out. IMG_2019 (1) by Robert Moorman, on Flickr The pin had backed out of the top hinge about 3/8", it backed out of the bottom hinge over 1". NOW, if I could find some willing sole to sell me two rebuildable drivers door hinges, cheap enough that I could rebuild them. Just the bottom would work if anybody has one.