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Title: fitting door striker plates Post by: FC-V8 on May 05, 2005, 12:52:47 AM Has anyone got any tips for fitting put the striker plates & those spacer type plates that go under the striker plates so I don't scratch put the paint while trying to align them with the door locking mechanism.
Cheers Glenn Title: Re: fitting door striker plates Post by: smithy on May 05, 2005, 02:15:19 AM hi glenn, i ended up using some wide say 2 inch masking tape the veryu carefully moving the latch around so it wouldnt catch the tape, then when position is determined cut the tape away carefully with a sharp razor or blade. the other way could be to leave the backing plate off just use the latch to set the position then trace around it with a soft lead pencil remove the latch and fit backing plate.
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