All you'll have to do to follow this method is pop out your hinge pin with a nail punch and hammer, then slowly bend the ...

Stick the shim loosely between the door and the jamb to hold the door in position when you drive out the upper hinge pin. Then bend the pin slightly with a firm whack. Reinsert the pin and check ...

For doors that swing closed or open on their own, Popular Mechanics recommends bending the hinge pin a bit with a hammer (pictured at top-left in our little matrix picture mash-up): Rather than ...