Chain Sore

This seemed like a Good Idea before I started.  

Fire regs demand that our bedroom doors have closers.  That's fine for most doors but the way that the door to the Yellow Room opens means that the not-terribly-pretty closer had to be fitted to the outside of the door.

Thus, I thought I'd try a 'hidden' closer.

Then I needed to buy a big enough / long enough drill bit.

Then take the door off as it won't open wide enough to drill otherwise.

Then fit the main bit of the closer into the door.  That went fine.  Likewise getting the door back on its hinges.

At this point the instructions say to get a claw hammer under the second plate (on the right in the blip).  Now, bear in mind that this is being pulled into the door with the level of force needed to pull a door closed, and engage the lock, from the hinge edge of the door.  That's really quite a lot of pull.  And the plates are very flush.

After much leverage and Anglo Saxon phrasing, the plate is away from the body enough to get the supplied clip in to stop it going ping back in again.

Thus I can finally fit the door-frame plate.

Ah.  How do I get that now-deformed-under-pressure clip out again?

After much leverage and Anglo Saxon phrasing...

Yea.  It works.  Actually rather well.

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Oh.  <Insert Anglo Saxon of choice>.  It's upside-down.