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/RANT Nothing can be easy for me /RANT
About five years ago the weather guard mounted to the bottom of the basement exterior door failed. It was nothing more than a piece of wood with a rubber tubing stapled to it. I removed it to discover the gap was almost an inch in height from the door's threshold. Being that this is an exterior basement door, I'm guessing whatever the code was way back in 1999-2000 when the house was built required a steel-clad door, which is the same as the one for the kitchen door leading into the garage.
Anyhoo ... at the time of failure I could not find another weather guard product that would fill this 'gap' and finally just accepted whatever came closest. I am ready, after being distracted and disenfranchised for several years trying to install the replacement weather guard but I am having trouble getting the door off. For some odd reason I cannot get the door hinge pins to pop out. The door swings freely with no signs of resistance and I've tried applying some penetrating lubricant and waiting 30-minutes, a couple of hours, half a day and now two days and still after repeated attempts with a nail and hammer at the bottom of the hinge I cannot get those dang pins out.
Shockingly, five years ago when i first removed the failed weather guard I had no problems getting the pins out. The hinges and pins have been saturated twice in penetrating lubricating oil and still they will not budge. I know I can just unscrew the hinges themselves (from the door or jamb), but that turns a one-man job into a two man job when I need to put the door back into place. Any ideas on what to do to get this pins out? I am not being gentle by any means with the tip of the nail at the bottom of the pin when I strike it with said hammer.
About five years ago the weather guard mounted to the bottom of the basement exterior door failed. It was nothing more than a piece of wood with a rubber tubing stapled to it. I removed it to discover the gap was almost an inch in height from the door's threshold. Being that this is an exterior basement door, I'm guessing whatever the code was way back in 1999-2000 when the house was built required a steel-clad door, which is the same as the one for the kitchen door leading into the garage.
Anyhoo ... at the time of failure I could not find another weather guard product that would fill this 'gap' and finally just accepted whatever came closest. I am ready, after being distracted and disenfranchised for several years trying to install the replacement weather guard but I am having trouble getting the door off. For some odd reason I cannot get the door hinge pins to pop out. The door swings freely with no signs of resistance and I've tried applying some penetrating lubricant and waiting 30-minutes, a couple of hours, half a day and now two days and still after repeated attempts with a nail and hammer at the bottom of the hinge I cannot get those dang pins out.
Shockingly, five years ago when i first removed the failed weather guard I had no problems getting the pins out. The hinges and pins have been saturated twice in penetrating lubricating oil and still they will not budge. I know I can just unscrew the hinges themselves (from the door or jamb), but that turns a one-man job into a two man job when I need to put the door back into place. Any ideas on what to do to get this pins out? I am not being gentle by any means with the tip of the nail at the bottom of the pin when I strike it with said hammer.
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