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Install Door Hinges

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What happens here

For each cabinet door, mark the locations for the European-style hinges. Position a hinge drilling jig (often available at hardware stores) over the marked spots. Use a drill fitted with a Forstner bit (typically 35mm for European hinges) to precisely bore out the cup holes for the hinges. Ensure the depth stop on the drill is correctly set to avoid drilling through the front of the door. Repeat this process for all cabinet doors.

Goal: Use a specialized jig and a Forstner bit to accurately drill holes for European-style hinges on all cabinet doors.

Tools and materials

  • Drill
  • Forstner Bit (35mm)
  • Hinge Drilling Jig
  • Pencil
  • Tape Measure
  • European-style Hinges

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with it thinking ahead [Music] folks today is the day we're finally going to get start installing all these doors drawers drawer faces went to the hardware store picked up my drawer slides got 12 of these and uh got 24 of the hinges maybe i spent 300 bucks and that's terrifying to me that's how much hardware it costs now what we're going to do is we're going to start installing these hinges first we're going to flip the sucker over we're going to use this little jig that you can buy at any hardware store it comes with a forstner bit we're just going to line it up put where our holes are drill bore out of this hole so the drawer hinge can go in secure with the

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