# What's wrong with my doorknob (and how can I fix it?)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-doorknob-and-how-can-i-fix-it/391212>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 7, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-doorknob-and-how-can-i-fix-it/391212 "2007-02-07T15:32:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-my-doorknob-and-how-can-i-fix-it/391212/21 "2007-02-10T02:16:31Z")

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Well, thanks to you guys I spent a hundred bucks at Hiller Hardware and narrowly escaped buying a meat grinder. FYI, some of their Baldwin brass is 50% off, I got a cool decorative brass thing that’s ever so period to my house. They did have one crystal doorknob, which they said they didn’t over the phone, but it was like $140 and even at 50% off that’s more of a premium than I’m willing to pay to buy local. Pretty, though, and I did get a pretty Delft-style porcelain lever handle for the kitchen door. Didn’t come with a lock mechanism, though, so I’m back to square one. 🙂

Ex-Columbians, you do know they and many other 5 Points businesses are essentially closing because of shortsighted streetscaping projects, right? Within a year or so all that’s left there will be college bars and drunken kids throwing up in the streets.

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