Unlike wooden doors steel doors require a different approach to repair hinge screws that are pulled out of the door.
Metal door hinge screws stripped.
Fringe screw is fritan technology s proprietary screw designed to fix loose door hinges caused by stripped screw holes.
This allows the screw threads to embed in the enlarged stripped screw hole while the head sits flush in the hinge.
Open the door wide and insert a wedge under the bottom outside corner to level it.
It features a standard size head and oversize threads.
Ships from and sold by zzem screw.
Remove the screws that hold the loose hinge leaf to the door jamb.
Through use the screws securing the hinge become loose.
This is how i fixed my bathroom door.
Then bore out the stripped holes with a 3 8 inch diameter bit.
If the hinge and jamb are painted cut the paint around the leaf with a utility knife swing the leaf away from the jamb.
The wrong way is a temporary fix not cool.
When the door is swung open the loose screws pull out of the threaded mounting holes.
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