Anton Redman II Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 We have ten doors with no door handles all have a 5mm square hole through them for a square bar to which you attach the handles. Apart from a few bathroom sets I have not been able to find door handles with 5 mm bars. I have found 5mm bars and adaptors to the Euro-norm of 8 mm. One example below :http://www.doorfurnituredirect.co.uk/scpro/bernards/productssearch~search~spindle~page~2~order~prodorder~subsort~.htmHas anybody ever found anything similar on sale in France ? If so where ?Has anybody found made a work round for the bar problem. If so where did the source the materials.I have worked my way through Google.fr without success but have discovered you can pay in excess of € 300 for a door handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Anton, you should be able to buy 5mm square section iron in most brico's you'll have to cut to length though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman II Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 The problem then is how you pack them out to 8 mm for the door handles to grip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Ahh, now i see, would it not be easier to replace the mechanism for the standard 8mm? You have found a solution with the sleeve what is stopping you, wont they post to France? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman II Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 The doors are oak, probably as old as the house so at least 130 years, and the locks do not have a standard spacing that I can buy from a Brico of even the specialists. Therefore I do want to cut them about to fit modern locks. I had hoped that as there were more 5mm spindles in France than in the UK that there would be an easy to obtain French solution and I was just not looking in the right place. At the moment just making sure I have the right sized screw driver in each room in case the door blows shut when I am working in the room. I will try the square section and some square section tube over it next week.Failing that will order and collect during holiday in UK this summer.The worst element of the whole job is that 10 out of 11 sets were removed but they broke the screw on the 11th. Took me about 3 minutes to remove it so I know what the originals looked like and I cannot find either repro or second hand sets to match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Sent you a PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman II Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 Many thanks for the kind offer. I will sort a short term solution for a couple of the rooms on Monday. I will order the parts for delivery to a couple of friends who are due out in the middle of August. There is no great rush as I am still removing layers of wall paper from the doors and crawling through the loft pulling new wiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Confused!It seems you can get the 5mm square section bar (I thought 6mm was the standard steel section) and you have seen the 5-8mm adaptors so I cant see what the problem Are you perhaps looking for handles that have the hole centres and lock position compatible with your old 5mm sq bore locks?I threw away about 10 sets a few years ago with the old panel doors [:(] come to think of it they had been wallpapered as well, right tastefull they were [:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman II Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 The problem is the adaptors are in England and I am in France. If I find out the guy I bought the house from sold the handles I may kill him. If he threw them away I will kill him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG MAC Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 I am over this coming weekend what do you want and from where? Do want them popping in the post France side? (We are headed for the Mayenne from Bolougne) depends where you are whether we can do a door handle spacer relay or some such. Failing that back in August Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman II Posted July 14, 2010 Author Share Posted July 14, 2010 Many thanks again for the kind offers. Have sourced 1 metre of 6mm bar and a very small amount of sanding with a belt sander allows it through the hole, which must be marginally more than 5 mm. I had some sheet metal left over from building a pulley shield for the lawn tractor and using tin snips and a small vice have made the sleeves. I now just have to source the handles at a reasonable price. They one set the left behind, because they sheered the grub scred are ebonised wood with one side a conventional knob and the other offset like the old Paris Metro carriage handles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG MAC Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 If you machined two sides of 8mm bar on your grinder you could have an 8 mm on one side and a 5mm on the other simply needing a small piece of angle to get your square back the rotation would be minutely skewed but I doubt you would notice unless there is an escutcheon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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