The Wrong Bloody Door

         I've had this door a couple of months now - maybe more. Would you believe I never really checked it out? Not even while cutting it back and painting it.          So 'tunnel vision' and so preoccupied with the hassles of the day.  How stupid can you get?

   So now I find that after all this time and all these hassles I :  (1) Still don't have a colour match and (2) Don't have the right door anyway!!!

   What a joke.

   Here's the story. If anyone has any clues how to deal with this - or got a swap door or something - please let me know.

Here is the inside of my original door. The black goo you can see surrounds an indentation meant to allow your knuckles in there so's you can grasp and squeeze the door opener - a flat metal plate that pushes a lever up in that square hole there and works the mechanism.

Incidentally not a real good mechanism, but that's what it was.		 4159
Now here's the new door.  The same location.  No such indentation, no such square hole.  Something gets fastened in here with a set of three screws, looks like, in a triangle formation.

 It is not made for my mechanism at all. If I drilled holes to set the mechanism in here there'd be no indentation, it just wouldn't work.

 It is the wrong door. I don't know how or why.		 4160

 What I'm planning to do is cut the whole inside of the door out and weld it into the new door.  That's after testing that the door fits.  If it does fit and the only problem is the different inside then I'll do that.

 Any words of wisdom by anyone will be read with interest.