Milescraft 1213 Hinge Mate 300 - Complete Door Installation Kit

The Door Mortise Kit from Milescraft offers a solution to increase security and privacy in your home by allowing you to replace interior and exterior doors without damaging the jamb or door frame. By routing matching mortises for hinges, strike plates, and latch plates into the door and jamb, you can hang a better wooden door without the need to tear a hole in the wall.

This kit features an easy-to-use drop-in template design with a sturdy steel frame, providing everything you need for most hinges, strike plates, and latch plates on 1-3/4-inch and 1-3/8-inch doors and jambs. Gone are the days of chiseling or setting stops and pegs to rout a mortise. Simply set the door thickness selector knob, attach the kit to the door or jamb, drop in the plainly marked template for your door hardware, and rout.

Included in the kit is a durable tungsten carbide-tipped 1/2-inch router bit with a ball bearing, eliminating the need for guide bushings. An Easy Measure Guide has been provided, where the math has been done for you to ensure the standard industry placement of your door hardware. Centered tabs on each template ensure complete accuracy.

The product is packaged in a clamshell that snaps shut, serving as a hanging storage container for the templates when not in use. To reuse the templates, simply cut off the package seal edge when opening.

For best results, Milescraft recommends applying 2-4 pieces of tape to the templates. The kit includes the following templates:

• HINGE MORTISES (for square and rounded hinges): 2-1/2, 3, 3-1/2, 4, and 4-1/2-inch hinges.
• STRIKE PLATE MORTISES: 1-1/8 by 2-3/4, 1-1/2 by 2-1/4, and 1-1/2 by 2-3/4-inch strike plates.
• LATCH PLATE MORTISES: 1 by 2-1/4, 1-1/8 by 2-1/4, and 1-1/8 by 2-3/4-inch latch plates.

Some chiseling may be required on templates with square corners. The adjustable cams automatically align the templates for 1-3/8-inch or 1-3/4-inch doors, and the sturdy steel frame can be mounted on both the door and the jamb.

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