Fixing aligment of holes for handles.

[paro]

Hi All - So in my mad rush to get everything usable for Christmas I've managed to mess up the handles on the tall cupboards. Not quite sure how I did it, but no matter it's done now. They are about 2mm out. I tried drilling a larger 5mm hole to get some play but its not enough. Before I bite the bullet and drill an even bigged hole is there any other one ways to solve this?  

 

Doors are MDF -- no idea how diy-kitchens get to sell it as solid wood when it's all chipboard and mdf, but that's another thing. 

 

Cheers, Paul

[Nickfromwales]

You have a bit of luck, as the base of each handle has those larger 'feet', so I would just drill incrementally up in size until you get to where you need to be.

 

If it's up/down, then maybe use the 5mm bit to just elongate to make a slot, vs making bigger holes, plus you may need to fit washers to the screws so they don't pull into the (real wood) of the door and then move back to where you don't want them to be from the tightening action (rotational movement of the pan head screws).

 

Very slow and very steady wins the race, so don't do this in anger.