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balmybaldwin

Member Since: 17 Apr 2021
Location: Surrey
Posts: 192

2002 Defender 90 Td5 CSW Buckingham Blue

How do you fit hinges without chipping the paint?

I'm wondering if there's a trick I'm missing.

I've just had to change my drivers door hinges.

I carefully keyed, primed, painted and clear coated them to prevent future rust as you do.

Whilst fitting them, when inserting and tightening new shiny stainless bolts I have of course chipped them down to bare metal in a few small areas around the bolt heads. (Not helped by having to tighten and re-loosen a bit to align door)

So how do I avoid this? Some trick with masking tape?

Was my clear coat just not good enough?

Am I just clumsy?

13th Jul 2021 11:20pm

Dinnu

Member Since: 24 Dec 2019
Location: Lija
Posts: 3214

2012 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 CSW Santorini Black

I think this is normal, but is more likely to happen if paint is applied on the thick side. With genuine bolts, I even had the head scraping on the side of the counter bores.

For my restoration I am also using stainless steel (reworked standard panheads) which I undersized the head on a lathe for this specific reason. I have also rounded a bit the edges. I have painted the hinges quite a while back so very sure that the paint reaches maximum hardness. I plan to put some grease so the bolts can ‘slide’ in the paint a little more free. But I will be fingers crossed when installing the doors. I have placed some pictures of the bolts on pg6 of my restoration thread.

https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic72365-75.html 1988 90 Hard Top, 19J Diesel Turbo, Shire Blue - Restoration ongoing
2012 90 CSW, 2.2TDCI, Santorini Black

14th Jul 2021 5:50am

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