Help with oddball size door handles

Team Sabatage

http://www.homedepot.com/p/DEWALT-Door-Lock-Installation-Kit-D180004/202248712?N=5yc1vZc268Z1z1313c

PP1

Interesting Jig Team S. Reading the reviews of that and some different types it seems that's what some of the folks used them for. I didn't realize they were so inexpensive or I probably wouldn't have asked the question.

Finger Mullet wrote: »

Did you check on the web if you can find the original size used?

I did check.....a few times. Maybe someone smarter than I am could have found them pretty easy, but I could not. But I'll be darned if I didn't just find some youtube videos showing how to increase the size. Have to look at those tonight when I'm away from the Net-Nanny.

Thanks for the help everyone.

David B

Stay away from the cheaper jigs. Buy the better quality one offered. As someone else said, be careful when exiting the back of the door. I have placed tape over the back to help ensure that it doesn't splinter. Are these older Luan doors? If so, splintering may happen anyways.

Team Sabatage

Use a backer board to prevent splintering on the back side when you drill.

You're working on interior doors, right? 1 3/8 thick? This leaves you enough space to slip a 1/4 or 3/8 block of plywood into the jig on the back side from where you are drilling. Place a layer of blue tape over the hole, (on the backside) clamp the sacrifice piece of wood and jig into place and clamp as tight as you can. Now drill, slowly progressing, let the tool cut, don't overheat the cutting teeth, it dulls them, heat is your enemy when drilling. When the drill gets through the door, keep drilling until the teeth have cleared the back side, but you don't have to go all the way through the sacrifice block.

jad1097

Too much work. Just start the hole on each side of the door

Fish Haid

Nothing wrong with those old doorknobs! Spend your money on cocaine instead.

Team Sabatage

jad1097 wrote: »

Too much work. Just start the hole on each side of the door

Doing things so that they turn out nice is often to much work, that's why it pays well.

PP1

Well I finally got a chance to go on this. Thanks to the suggestions and some google searches it was pretty easy to make a little jig and use a hole saw. Was by myself so this was the extent of the pictures I took.