| 1. | Simply replace the present hinges with the rising butt hinges.
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| 2. | The hinges are called rising butt hinges, which raise the door as it is opened.
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| 3. | Windows were hung on butt hinges.
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| 4. | Those types of pressed wood boards are not very strong, and the screws of butt hinges tend to pull out.
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| 5. | The New England Butt Company originally manufactured cast iron butt hinges, but later changed to producing machinery for braiding and stranding wire.
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| 6. | But this might work without cutting the door : Install rising-butt hinges, which raise the door slightly as you open it.
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| 7. | And the handyman should have suggested what Jim Naughton of Norwood, Mass . called to suggest : Install rising butt hinges in the door.
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| 8. | The easiest way, I think, is to mount the trap door with solid brass butt hinges, the kind used for front and back doors.
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| 9. | All doors in the house are raised paneled on the " good " side and flat paneled on the back and are hung on their original butt hinges.
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| 10. | But here is an easy way out : Install rising butt hinges on the door; these hinges are set on a cam that raises the door when it is open.
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