"bigbrian" wrote in message
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With apologies for the amateur explanation.....

I've got a problem with a kitchen cupboard door. Its the one under the
oven, and its next to another cupboard that has a drawer above it. The
one I have a problem with has no drawer above it, but is the same
height as the adjacent cupboard and drawer combined.

Still with me?

In order that the door panelling wasn't out of synch, the cupboard
under the oven has a dummy drawer front (without a knob) built into
the top of the door, so that when you open the door, the door and the
dummy drawer front open together to reveal the inside of the cupboard.
The problem is that the dummy drawer front has detached itself from
the rest of the door.

It looks like it had been held on by a couple of metal pins fitted
into both the top of the door, and the bottom of the dummy drawer
front....these have both sheared offleaving the top of the
door..er...topless.

My next move is........?

Do what the manufactures did. What you have described can be achieved using
nails/brads of suitable size. Check what size the sheared ones are and get
similiar. You want them to go about 3/4 of an inch or so into both the door and
the dummy drawer and allow for the quarter inch cosmetic gap.

Get the nails. (Screwfix catalogue must have something suitable to give you an
idea) whack a couple into the door. Use something to hold the door from
underneath. (wood blocks, telephone directories or whatever) Then cut the heads
off the nails at an angle. Get a piece of wood, or something suitable, that is a
quarter inch thick. Put that between your now headless nails and then whack the
dummy drawer onto them.