Don Foreman wrote:
Warning: metal content.

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They are far too beautiful for me to use my "gilding a turd" expression
for them.

Plus, I spent a couple of hours last week "engineering" and making a one
off custom magnetic catch to keep the folding door on our front hall
coat closet from springing back open if someone was careless about how
they hung up a heavy coat and left it bulging out enough to push the
door back open.

The existing compression spring at the end of the door track which was
supposed to work by pushing against the edge of the closed door so that
it had to toggle a bit to open because the center hinge pivots are
coplanar with (plus a tiny bit) the inside of the door wasn't strong
enough to do its job right.

I used a 3/4" diameter rare earth magnet set in a turned steel cup on an
aluminum bracket mounted near the center of the top of the door frame
where it could it grab a piece of 18 gage steel screwed to the back of
the door adjacent to where it "folds". That sucker held the door closed
so well I had to put a couple of layers of masking tape on the steel to
ease it up a bit.

Not THAT was turd gilding for sure...

Jeff

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Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented."