Porter-Cable 59370 Door Hinge Template
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Artist: Jean ChapelManufacturer: Porter-Cable
Model: 59370
Product features:
- Quick and easy set up with lock-in pins to ensure security
- Complete with double headed nails for easy removal
- Included along with the template are a high-speed mortiser router bit with bearing brads, instructions
- 8 hinge sizes from 2-1/2 inch to 6 inch and 5 door sizes from 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/2 inch
- Made from Fiberglass, reinforced plastic with extended platform for better router stability
Description of Porter-Cable 59370 Door Hinge Template
Use this affordable, time saving template kit to hang one or more doors with any 1/4 inch collet router. Easy to set up; just mark the hinge location, tack the template in place with the included brads, and make the perfect, factory quality looking cut. The 59370 Door Hinge Template includes 8 hinge sizes from 2-1/2 inch to 6 inch and five door sizes from 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/2 inch.Tools and Hardware Reviews of Porter-Cable 59370 Door Hinge Template
Customer Review: Great tool for do-it-yourselfer
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked one of these tools up at the home depot after looking at several hinge template tools online. I was a little skeptical about how well it was going to work after reading some of the reviews on amazon.com about it but decided to give it a shot. I have to say that for less than $30 it was well worth the investment. It came with the template, router bit, 4 pegs (you only need 2 to set the thickness of the door you are using) and 2 double headed nails. Before I attempted to cut anything using it I read the directions several times while holding the template in my hands so I could see exactly what the directions were explaining. I was using 3.5 inch hinges with a 5/8 inch radius and I was putting them onto 1 3/8 inch solid pine slab doors. Setting up the tool for this hinge setup was pretty easy. I used a scrap piece of plywood and did a couple practice runs to get the depth set exactly for the hinges I was using. The double headed nails were not very happy about going into plywood but they worked very well on the pine doors. I think the key to using this tool is to be gentle and precise. The tool itself is made from a reasonably hard plastic material and I was careful while adjusting the hinge size so that the arms wouldn't break off like someone else had written about in another review. The directions do specifically say that if you need to readjust the size of the hinge on the tool to slide the adjusters in only one direction and if necessary slide it all the way out and start over from the largest size (you'll see what I mean if you buy it and look at it).
So I basically just transferred the location of the hinges from the old doors to the new doors using a carpenters square on the top and bottom of the hinge location. Those marks were 3.5 inches apart (imagine that since they were 3.5 inch hinges originally installed) I then marked the centers at 1 3/4 inches; this is where precisions comes into play. The template has notches to identify the center of whatever hinge size you have selected. You need to make absolutely sure the center mark on the tool lines up exactly with the center mark for your hinge! Sometimes the template would shift slightly during nailing and you definitely don't want that to happen. I was using a pretty big Craftsman router and was very careful to keep the template as flat as possible against the door while routing it out. The doors I used were only 1 3/8 inch thick so that's not a lot of support under the template and I kept that in mind while using the router. The tool worked perfectly the entire time and I didn't have any problems with it. The only thing I did notice was that the location on the template where the double headed nails were continually being nailed into started to indent (I installed 7 doors for a total of 21 hinges). I wasn't smashing the nails into the template either; I would tap them in just enough to make sure the template was secure. Some type of metal sleeve at the nailing location during manufacture would be a great improvement on this tool. Other than that I found it to be very useful and all of the mortises came out perfectly.
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