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  • One thing that's been annoying me ever so slightly with the lock I fitted yesterday is that I scribed round the outside of the facing plates with a new Stanley blade, then chiselled the recesses out very neatly, but I didn't drill pilot holes for the screws and drove them straight in with the drill - which of course meant that they went in slightly off centre and my plates are very slightly misaligned now.

  • Knock a matchstick into the hole and start again

    Used to do this, then used to put 9mm round softwood stick in, glue and rescrew.

    Now I buy hardwood golf tees, glue, cut off the top and rescrew.

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