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Door Strike Plate Alignment with Pencil/Lipstick

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What happens here

The creator first attempts the hack using a pencil to mark the door latch. He shades the entire surface of the door latch where it meets the strike plate with a pencil. Upon closing the door, the pencil mark is supposed to transfer to the strike plate, indicating the exact point of contact. However, with a polished stainless steel strike plate, the pencil mark does not transfer effectively. He then tries an alternative method using lipstick (borrowed from his wife). He applies lipstick to the door latch. When the door is closed, the lipstick leaves a clear mark on the strike plate, providing a precise guide for any necessary adjustments. This method is crucial for ensuring a door closes smoothly without sticking or rattling.

Goal: This step tests a method for precisely marking the contact point of a door latch on its strike plate to facilitate adjustment and proper alignment.

Tools and materials

  • Lipstick
  • Pencil
  • Screwdriver

What they say

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what the next one looks like. This is to get a good alignment with the door catch um, bolt or anything you have. Strike plates. Those are annoying. A lot of doors I've had in previous houses, they don't line up. So, he just put a little pencil mark on it. I've seen this kind of been done with lipstick. You just do the same thing with lipstick and it traces the perfect thing. Um, let's try it. I don't have misaligned doors, but let's see if it lines up with the strike plate just to see that it actually does work. So, like I said, I don't have any misaligned doors, so this is going to catch perfectly. But the tracing should show up on my little strike plate just to confirm that the pencil trick works. I know that the edge is the most important part, but this is like stainless steel. It's all polished, so it's really hard to get anything on there. Trying to Let's see where it lines up on the strike plate. [Applause] I don't see anything showing up. Nothing at all. Let me try the lipstick method that I've seen happen. I'm going to go steal some from my wife. Don't tell her. All right. So, I found some uh MAC, which I know it's an expensive brand lipstick for my wife. She's just around the corner. She doesn't know I took this. So, I'm pretty confident she's not going to watch this episode. So, just keep this one between us. Let's try this. [Applause] [Music] All right. So, this method worked perfectly. I see it right over here. It didn't carry it across, but if this strike plate wasn't there, it would rub. I think a little bit further down on the wood itself, this little uh door jamb itself. But we have an alignment on top here that we can just trace out and seeing that this trick actually works perfectly. On to the next one. Let's see

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