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Re: door shims?

To: John Weber <weberjm@teleport.com>
Subject: Re: door shims?
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:56:59 -0700
John,
Those are sold by the major suppliers and probably are proper.  I know that at 
one time when I was having alignment problems with my
doors, I made some shims out of aluminum because I couldn't get the door 
properly aligned without doing that.

Joe

John Weber wrote:
> 
> Hallo!
> 
> My door hinges have 3 paper gaskets (shims?) totalling about 1/32 inch
> thick.  Might be a tad more, I didn't measure.
> 
> Is this a requirement to make the door fit or is it something the PO did to
> make the doors fit.  (I think that I may be the first person to ever remove
> the doors.)
> 
> John
> '75 Spit

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