Replacement towel bar
If you have a
bathroom with old ceramic tile, chances are the towel bars are made with
ceramic end brackets and bars of plastic or plastic-covered wood. If yours are
like mine were, they probably didn’t look all that good when new and are
looking pretty dismal now. I decided to replace mine with oak to match the
cabinets.
I removed the old
bars, and then made new ones to fit the sockets.
I cut the length of
the new bar to the distance between the inside faces of the brackets, plus the
depth of just one socket. This allowed the bar to be easily slipped into place.
To keep it from falling, I inserted five or six pennies, one at a time, into
the gap between one end of the bar and its socket.
At the other end, I
drilled and tapped a diagonal hole for a 1/4-in. setscrew. I couldn’t find a
brass or stainless setscrew, so I cut off a length of a brass bolt and sawed a
screwdriver slot in one end.
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