Porcelain door knob keeps falling off!
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Katie9978, good evening.
Having played around with a few of them a square spindle with no indentations is not uncommon on original Victorian parts.
Suggest you replace the square spindle witha spindle that has indentations, the indentations assist the handle grub screw to hold far better.
Or?? using a thin nail, pin, or something sharp that you can pass through the hole in the handle without doing any damage to the threads make a mark on the spindle, make sure the handle is in the "correct" position when doing this that is as little slack as possible on the handles.
You can, using a drill with a suitably sized drill make an indentation on the spindle into which the handle screw will be a lot more secure.
If you when trying to make the mark with the nail, pin [whatever] on the spindle fail to mark the spindle sufficiently smear some black marker pen ink on to the spindle, that shoule make locating the pin mark easier??
Ken.
Having played around with a few of them a square spindle with no indentations is not uncommon on original Victorian parts.
Suggest you replace the square spindle witha spindle that has indentations, the indentations assist the handle grub screw to hold far better.
Or?? using a thin nail, pin, or something sharp that you can pass through the hole in the handle without doing any damage to the threads make a mark on the spindle, make sure the handle is in the "correct" position when doing this that is as little slack as possible on the handles.
You can, using a drill with a suitably sized drill make an indentation on the spindle into which the handle screw will be a lot more secure.
If you when trying to make the mark with the nail, pin [whatever] on the spindle fail to mark the spindle sufficiently smear some black marker pen ink on to the spindle, that shoule make locating the pin mark easier??
Ken.
Should have a recess on underside and screw should also be secured from below .
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