How To Repair A Mailbox Door Hinge

Straighten out the metal front and use your hands to bend the metal edges inward as to ensure a secure fit around the mailbox frame when the door closes.

How to repair a mailbox door hinge.

1 it s a tool you ll just use once 2 buying too shallow rivets will result in an incredibly hard to open door and 3 even with the right depth of rivet consumer grade pop rivets these days are aluminum and the steel edges of your mailbox door will grind through it. If the mailbox is a standard one made out of metal then the problem might rest with the inside hasp the. Determine what is preventing the mailbox door from closing properly. You are not required to do any cutting drilling or anything else destructive.

This video is sponsored by bayshore mailbox company. Is the door or the box. Open the mailbox door and attempt to bend it back into place. How to fix a mailbox door heavy metal.

How to repair a mailbox step 1. If you do not. The door of the. After that it was quite apparent that the mailbox was looking really sad and needed a little help.

Steph s mailbox was one of those things. If the door or the box is bent try gently tapping the metal back into place with a rubber mallet. Our mailboxes made by the beautiful mailbox company have spring d hinges that after only a few months cannot keep the doors closed especially on windy. The dirt rust and dangling mailbox door had all become white noise that hadn t been obvious until june when we painted the outside of the house.

Is the hinge broken. If the mailbox is the type that s encased in brick then the best solution is simply to replace the. Join vicki steph from mother daughter projects as they fix steph s rusty and broken metal mailbox. If you use either a plastic lock nut or a pair of nuts jammed together you can allow the screw to act as a hinge while leaving a little slack by not fully tightening down against the mailbox metal.

Realign and retighten the hinges to adjust the door to fit around the mailbox frame. Then just take the replacement door and snap it into the opening of your existing mailbox and you are done.